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"My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic." »Walt Whitman
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"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny." »John Oliver Hobbes
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"A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth." »Lao Tzu
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"A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation." »Saadi
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"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." »George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack." »Steven Runciman
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"...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune." »Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor
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"Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom." »Manu
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"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." »Edward Everett Hale
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"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something I will not refuse to do something I can do." »Helen Keller
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do." »Edward Everett Hale
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." »Edmund Everett Hale
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"Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"War will cease when men refuse to fight." »F. Hansen
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"If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." »Maya Angelou
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"I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress." »Manisha Koirala
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"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse." »Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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"However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal." »Pliny the Younger
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"To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice." »Magna Carta
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"I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless." »Peter Walker
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"Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." »Godfather, The
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"We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep." »Madame Swetchine
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"A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft." »Publilius Syrus
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"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way." »A. C. Benson
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"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy." »John C. Sawhill
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"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you." »Madame de Tencin
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