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• Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

  Steven Morrissey

  Soul, Satan, Lows

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• Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

  Colum McCann

  Loneliness, Odds, Pairs

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Mysterious Benedict Society, Felt

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• It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.

  Ken Follett

  Girl, Men, Should Have

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.2780, Penguin

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• the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

  Robin McKinley

  Ideas, Evil, Poison

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• I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

  David Sedaris

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  "David Sedaris diaries are mundane, profane, downright odd". The Associated Press Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 2, 2017.

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• Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Fate, Birth, Abandoned

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• I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.

  Werner Herzog

  Today, Film, Sometimes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Unhappy, Lovers, Expenses

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Mean, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Utilitarianism: Mill's Works”, p.3, VM eBooks

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• America doesn't exist in decline! America never has existed in decline, and people do not want to be told that the country that they live in now is in decline and to live it, learn it, and love it. And so they rejected it. So Van Jones goes out and he understands it's not racism - at least he says he understands. I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. He says he understands. He hears... He listens to Trump's speech and he finally sees how other people are hearing it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Racism, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Selfish, Love Is

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• How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Loss, Admitting

  Stephen Fry (1996). “Making History: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes to the rejected elements of existence, art may lead us to a more complete and less artificial celebration of the world.

  Unknown

  Art, Eye, Nihilism

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• Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Sick, Advice

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

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• People are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, O.K.? That's why people don't want to invest in America.

  Donald Trump

  Waiting In Line, America, Years

  "Trump on dismantling Obama's legacy: 'No, no, no'" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2016.

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

  Rita Moreno

  Attention, Actors, Applause

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.

  David Ogilvy

  Failure, Eight, Cereal

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• Does God know if I am ignored or rejected? Find the answer in the compassionate eyes of Christ as he stands to defend the adulterous woman.

  Max Lucado

  Eye, Doe, Answers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could not understand how the members of any academic profession could fail to be intrigued by the study of their own cultural heritage. What these historians did not grasp was that scientists will welcome the history of science only when it has been demonstrated that this discipline can add to our understanding of science itself and thus help to produce, in some sense, better scientists.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, Discipline, Understanding

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• Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Brain, Secret

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• A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

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• Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

  Susan Mitchell

  Yoga, Greatest Fear, Personality

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• ... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Way, Spirituality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.25, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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