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«When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.»
«We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.»
Author: Pamela Hansford Johnson
(Author, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
fit in, homogeneity, portrait, refuses
«Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.»
«You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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allowed to vote, come up, congress, last year, member, minimum, minimum wage, month, refuses, shutdown, vote, wage, worker
«Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour.»
«Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.»
«When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Obedience
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