#denies

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ↗

— Alice Walker

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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! ↗

— Orson Welles

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I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. ↗

— Bess Truman

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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. ↗

— Simone Weil

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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

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. ↗

— Margaret Deland

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I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

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Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. ↗

— Don Marquis

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No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution. ↗

— Michael Newdow

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