#denied

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. ↗

— Gilbert Ryle

#degraded #denied #ghost #machine #man

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#boy #denied #every #inside #little

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#denied #doing #i #i do #living

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. ↗

— Earl Warren

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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#because #care #created #denied #does

We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#allows #creates #denied #folks #insurance

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#america #cannot #colossal #course #denied

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied