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Letter "R" » Refusals
«When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(Activist)
| About:
Dignity,
Protest
| Keywords:
acknowledge, conferring, confers, confer with, protest, protested, protesting, protests, refusal, Refusals
«There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.»
«The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Ignorance,
Politics
| Keywords:
correctness, pillared, pillars, Pillars of, political, political correctness, refusal, Refusals, steadfast, willful
«Who timidly requests invites refusal»
Author: Latin Proverb
| Keywords:
invites, on request, refusal, Refusals, requested, requests, timidly
«There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.»
«Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power»
Author: Phyllis Rose
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
in terms of, momentary, prolonged, refusal, Refusals, terms
«Elegance is refusal.»
«REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absolution, alderman, franchise, graded, impenitent, maiden, refusal, Refusals, suitor, suitors, tentative
«Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.»
Author: Spanish Proverb
| Keywords:
consent, consents, friendlier, friendly, refusal, Refusals, unwilling
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