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• If we reject science, we reject the common man.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Men, Common, Ifs

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• The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Taken, Names

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• Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

  Freddie Mercury

  Devil, Social

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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

  Michael Moore

  Abuse, Life Is, This Life

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• If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

  William Morris

  Art, Hate, Real

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6494, Delphi Classics

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• I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dirty, Naughty, Views

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• At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Home, Government, Long

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.75, Best Books on

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• I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

  Susan Orlean

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

  George Osborne

  Class, Ideas, People

  "More Blairite than Tony" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Allies, Principles

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

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• It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

  Rick Perry

  America, People, Cynical

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• We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

  Rick Perry

  Too Much, States, Caretakers

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• Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Worship, True God

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• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Warfare, Nuclear, Bombs

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• If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Civilization, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.63, Penguin

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• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

  Carl Sagan

  Taken, Science, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.314, Ballantine Books

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• The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

  Christopher Paolini

  Beach, Nature, Hate

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Civilization, Assumption, Importance

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• [A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.

  Paul Bowles

  Civilization, Differences, Important

  Paul Bowles (2000). “The Paul Bowles reader”

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• We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Light, Hands

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• And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mean, Hunting, White

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• Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

  Charles Frazier

  Hurt, Forever, Sin

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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• There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

  John Owen

  Way, Revelations, Obedience

  John Owen (1852). “The Works ...”, p.158

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• To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

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