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• I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

  Giordano Bruno

  Doubting Everything, Assuming, Tradition

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• Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Cancer, Sick, Smoking

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Integrity, Long, Favors

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• I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Sexy, Personality, Feminist

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• Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Understanding, Intellectual, Brain

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• I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Doors, Somewhere Else, Arrows

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• ... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Attitude, Believe

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• I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

  Lindsey Graham

  Real, Believe, Climate

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Self, Desire

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.

  George Washington

  Country, President, Bills

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• Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

  Jean Cocteau

  Youth, Accepting, Certain

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• We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Mean, Civilization

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• If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.

  William Blackstone

  Government, Judging, Rejection

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• I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

  David Hume

  Looks, Belief, Opinion

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.244, Delphi Classics

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• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Safety, Rejection, Retreat

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Years, Agriculture, Target

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• Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Creativity, Past, Imagination

  "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

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• There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Artist, Psychics

  Howard Gardner (1982). “Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity”

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• Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

  Scott McClellan

  Opposites, Way, Hussein

  "Insight" with Jonathan Mann, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2005.

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• If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Determination, Struggle, Government

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• There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for your atheism toward the Roman gods are likely the same reasons I would give for not believing in Jesus.

  Dan Barker

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

  Arthur Trudeau

  Honesty, Character, Decision

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• Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Mean, Creative, Excellence

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• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Revenge, Patriotic, Past

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.

  Brigham Young

  Strange, Lord, Salvation

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.267

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