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• Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.

  David Hockney

  Law, Ideas, Perspective

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• Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

  Marsha Blackburn

  People, Effort, Amnesty

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• Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Vindictive, Vindictiveness

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• He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

  Shang Yang

  Independent, Pride, Extraordinary Person

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• As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

  Erica Jong

  Sleep, Trying, Bed

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.379, Open Road Media

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• This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Innovation, Age

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• I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.

  Ester Dean

  Pain, Memories, Voice

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• But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

  Anna Maxted

  Football, Rejection, Hints

  Anna Maxted (2016). “Getting Over It”, p.228, Random House

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• ... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Religious, Believe, Taken

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.266, Regnery Publishing

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• Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.

  Henry Jacob Bigelow

  Failure, Character, Successful

  "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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• When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Black History, Identity

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• Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

  David K. Shipler

  Democracy, Sunlight, Cures

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Jobs, Fun, Engineering

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• Cameraphones will be rejected by corporate users.

  Mike Lazaridis

  Corporate, Users

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

  Barry Corbin

  Selling Products, Eight, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.

  Eric Cantor

  Mean, House, Leader

  "Key Republican Lawmakers on GOP Agenda for New Congress". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2010.

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• When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

  Harvey Mackay

  Simple, Rejection

  Harvey Mackay (2007). “Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot”, p.45, Ballantine Books

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• How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

  Auguste Rodin

  Rejection, Helping, Painful

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• It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

  John Stuart Mill

  Age, Opinion, Certain

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.164, Hackett Publishing

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• I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

  Carl Sagan

  Sky, Rejection, Tiny

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Rejection, Used, Ends

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• I made it very clear that I rejected bigotry of all forms.

  Steve Scalise

  Form, Made, Clear

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.

  Steve Pavlina

  Dream, Trying, Way

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• It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Years, Shining

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• Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

  David Hume

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

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