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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
Dorothy Thompson
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The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
James MacDonald
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Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland
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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
Dante Alighieri
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Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
Alistair Begg
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Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
Francis Chan
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Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Robert Nozick
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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
David Deida
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The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
Bernie Siegel
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Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!
Bill Johnson
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The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
Thomas Keneally
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There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
Laurence Overmire
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
Lois Capps
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The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
Frank Barron
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Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
Roland Barthes
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The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.
Deepak Chopra
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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
Anthony de Mello
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When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
Andy Ihnatko
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The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.
Samuel Florman
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What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
David Malouf
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...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear
Lauren Oliver
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Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.
John Lahr
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.
Terry Pratchett
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While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
Arthur Brisbane
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Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.
Phyllis Rose
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We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
Amber Hollibaugh
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The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
Alfred Bester