Refuse Quotes
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If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.
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I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
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I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
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I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.
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Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.
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Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
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If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
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Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.
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I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.
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The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
