“ But yet she listen'd — 'tis enough — Who listens once will listen twice;Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,And one refusal no rebuff. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law is nothing else but reason. ”
- Sir Edward Coke- Copy
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“ Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
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“ Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”
- Howard Barker- Copy
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“ I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me. ”
- Lisa Alther- Copy
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“ We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way. ”
- Earl G. Graves- Copy
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“ Fat is a way of saying "no" to powerlessness and self-denial. ”
- Susie Orbach- Copy
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“ The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce. ”
- Henry George- Copy
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“ Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ On the one hand, there has to be a complete rejection of these types of terrorist acts and support of them, in any shape or form at all. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
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“ So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery. ”
- Robert Montgomery- Copy
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“ One of the factors justifying this rejection is the region's intensification of economic diversification coupled with privatization. ”
- Steve Forbes- Copy
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“ Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. ”
- James Burke- Copy
- 31
“ Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Nay, now you are too flat, And mar the concord with too harsh a descant. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. ”
- Peter Medawar- Copy
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“ In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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