Rejects Quotes - Page 32

• The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• ...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.

  Bhagat Singh

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  War, Civilization, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is no one ugly, deep, dark, powerful or evil enough to stop God from loving you. Nothing anyone can ever do to you can sever your connection to God. Nothing you could ever do can dam the unstoppable love of God for you. His love for you is undeniable, unrelenting and unconditional. You may ignore God, ridicule Him and reject Him but His love for you will remain constant and unchanging.

  T. B. Joshua

  Powerful, Dark, Evil

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• When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.

  Pema Chodron

  Struggle, Passion, Pride

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.

  E. J. Gold

  Reality, Uncontrollable Urge, Breathing

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• I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.

  Hugh Hendry

  Mirrors, Looks, Trends

  "'I can't look at myself in the mirror': Hendry reveals why he has turned bullish" by Dan Jones, www.investmentweek.co.uk. November 22, 2013.

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• This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.

  Ahmad Sa'adat

  Determination, People, Justice

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• This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Giving, Cooking

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• I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

  Mary Harron

  Feminism, Ridiculous, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Would Be, Easier, Ifs

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• Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, World, Wakes You

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

  Bodhidharma

  Soul, Ego, Birth

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• Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

  Henry Makow

  Roles, Males, Female

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• The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Order, Mind

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Command Not, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.386, JHU Press

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• Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

  Gordon Brown

  Cutting, Circles, Long

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• We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Silent, Holy, Passive

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• Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

  Dean Koontz

  Loneliness, Doors, Two

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.123, Bantam

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• A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the man's brain did not reject it. That pretty much confirms what women have been saying about men.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Boston, Doctors

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

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• It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Mean, Thinking, Materialism

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

  Confucius

  Men, Gentleman, Doe

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• More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Block, Views, Fleeting

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• An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Mean, Inference, Should

  Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford

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