#denied

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#cannot #covered #denied #did #form

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#cleaning #denied #lack #life #masterpiece

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#anyone #aspirations #away #decades #denied

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#assure #attention #congress #defence #denied

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#been #believe #denied #never #officially

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#chance #commonplace #denied #exotic #fantasy

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. ↗

— John Burns

#been #come #denied #events #forward

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

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