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• Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Differences, Prejudice, May

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.2, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

  Wendy Shalit

  Mean, Sensitive, Indifferent

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

  Jay Asher

  Hurt, My Best Friend, Worst

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Nostalgia, Birth

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on to children, often through the dynamic of self-protection. It hurts to be neglected, and it creates questions about our value to others. So to avoid feeling the sting of further rejection, we refuse to give that part of ourselves we fear might once again be received with indifference.

  Larry Crabb

  Hurt, Children, Dad

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of "nil paseran" - "none shall pass" - in the face of fascism?

  Hal Duncan

  Attitude, Passionate, Might

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• The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

  Brian Tracy

  Opportunity, Doubt, Enemy

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

  June Jordan

  Girl, Children, Hippie

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• Be sure of what you want, focus, work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Hard Work, People, Focus

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• She use to knock me out until her face broke out.

  Frank Zappa

  Use, Faces, Broke

  Song: Big Leg Emma

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• The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

  Louis Althusser

  Real, Men, World

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• That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Real, Nice

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• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Political

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• I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

  Noel Clarke

  Jobs, Would Be, Ratios

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

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• For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Effort, Leader

  "George Mitchell and King Abdullah II". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2011.

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• The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  Max Lerner

  Book, Men, Effort

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

  Susan Blackmore

  Past, Ideas, Soul

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• But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy.

  Luigi Veronelli

  Taken, Wine, Soul

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• You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Disappointment, Writing, Pay The Price

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• A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Should Have, Appreciated

  Jorge Luis Borges (2013). “Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.9, Melville House

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• The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

  Danielle Steel

  Long, Trying, Usual

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• People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Song, Pain

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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• The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Writing, Enough Time

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