Refuse Quotes
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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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Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed...
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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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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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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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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 the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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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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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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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 this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
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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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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
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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 myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.
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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.
