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Letter "R" » Refusing
«Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.»
«Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.»
«Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using»
«A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.»
Author: Betty Friedan
| Keywords:
advance, compete, copying, handicapped, handicaps, pattern, professions, Refusing, Sex and, slavishly
«Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Failure
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down, falling, Falling Down, get up, Refusing, to get
«Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.»
«Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.»
«A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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cell, darkness, diminish, glory, glorying, god, him, His, lunatic, no more, out, put, put out, put over, put through, put under, Refusing, scribble, scribbled, scribbles, scribbling, sun, suns, The Cell, The Sun, The Word, walled, walls, wall in, wall up, word, worship, worshipping
«Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acknowledgment, A level, Refusing, respecting
«In wise love each defines the secret self of the other, and refusing to believe in the mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover or the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life; for love also creates the Mask.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
beloved, copy, defines, mask, mirror image, Refusing, The Beloved, The Lover, The Mask
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