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• As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.

  Yael Dayan

  Love Is, Israel, Two

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Reality, Imagination

  "Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

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• I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Humanity, This Generation, Generations

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.304, Grove Press

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• Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Unique, Emotional, Thinking

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.233, Vintage

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• The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

  Steven Pinker

  People, Sacred, Compromise

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.717, Penguin

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• With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Intelligent, Men

  "The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman".

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• The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

  Charles Simic

  Dark, Silence, Age

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• The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Giving, Feelings

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.

  Errico Malatesta

  Essence, Understanding, Needs

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.138, PM Press

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• With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor of Stalinist/Fascist standards.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hate, Views, Expression

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Deterring Democracy”, p.394, Random House

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• We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Interesting, Balance

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

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• What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

  Jerry Garcia

  Evil, Consciousness, What Is Life

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• We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

  Alan Keyes

  Benches, Midst, Form

  Reception in Winder, Georgia, September, September 11, 2003.

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• Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Sight, Order

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1989). “Christian Meditation”, p.5, Ignatius Press

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• What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, He Man

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.51, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Men, Common Sense, Opinion

  "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

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• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Heart, Light

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Perspective, Alternatives

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Voice, Church, May

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Significant Things, Luxury, Architecture

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• I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Thinking, Errors

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• We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Working Together, Needs, Saving

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