Refuse Quotes
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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
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I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
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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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We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?
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I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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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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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.
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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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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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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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I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
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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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I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
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The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
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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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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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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.
