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Tag Name "Refuse" (1070)

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It was my mistake in the first days of the electoral campaign. I understand the mistake. I don't accept that people who say, Oh, politicians have to refuse to admit the mistakes. No. I am an, I am a man. I can make some mistakes.
Matteo Renzi
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Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
Frances Power Cobbe
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.
Ronald Reagan
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I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
Irene Cara
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What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
Theophile Gautier
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In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew.
James Ballantine
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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Giacomo Casanova
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Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
Mason Cooley
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Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.
Herman Kahn
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As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
George Orwell
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard DeVoto
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It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings.
David Sztybel
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In Heaven's happy bowers There blossom two flowers, One with fiery glow And one as white as snow While lo! before them stands, With pale and trembling hands, A spirit who must choose One, and one refuse.
Richard Watson Gilder
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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'll rise but I refuse to shine.
Gabrielle
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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
Martial
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The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I’ve been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I’m not going to work against my people. They’ve suffered enough.
Naomi Campbell
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Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer
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Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
Al Hirschfeld
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