Quotes with reject

  • The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
  • Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Chevy Chase Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
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  • George Holbrook Jackson As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
    Platitudes in the Making (1911) p. 13
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Elie Wiesel Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must reject this undeserved prize which has been presented to me. Please do not receive my voluntary rejection with displeasure.
    Telegram naar Nobelcomite (29-10-1958)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Salman Rushdie Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 146
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Adam Savage I reject your reality and substitute my own.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Ayn Rand If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Charles Churchill Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Havelock Ellis Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Barry McCaffrey So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Auberon Herbert The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Max Lerner The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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