Refuse Quotes
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There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
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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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Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed...
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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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The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
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I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
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I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.
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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
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It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at 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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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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As soon as we get comfortable in one role, we have to take on another! Why? ... Because he wants to keep us off balance! That's why! Because he doesn't want us to THINK! He doesn't want us to QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY! So he keeps us busy! Keeps us running in circles! Like mice! Rushing from one role to the next! Well, I'm on to his game! I see what he's doing! And I refuse to participate!
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I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
