Refuse Quotes
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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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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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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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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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I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.
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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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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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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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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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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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The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.
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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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It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
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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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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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I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
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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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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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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 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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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
