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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Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed...
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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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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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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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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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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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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've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.
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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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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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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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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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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 shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
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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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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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
