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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.


Jane Austen


#blindness #denial #folly #love #refusal

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.


Lois Capps


#cell #cell research #embryonic #embryonic stem cell #embryonic stem cell research

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.


John Updike


#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.


Frederick M. Vinson


#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.


Bob Woodward


#clean #come #deal #failure #final

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.


Dorothy Thompson


#causes #except #fear #find #happenings

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.


C.S. Lewis


#gift #grief #loss #love #passion

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.


Bayard Rustin


#act #being #confers #dignity #him

Elegance is refusal.


Coco Chanel


#refusal

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.


Diana Vreeland


#dressed #elegance #innate #nothing #refusal






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