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denial
«For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.»
Author: Hal Borland
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arrogance, bud, denial, falters, opening, sophistication, tuft, tufts
«By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?»
«All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.»
Author: Jacques Lipchitz
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Art,
Sculpture
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continually, denial, denial of, pushes, sculpture, sculptures
«Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bent, bents, bent on, denial, establishment, establishments, indulged, indulges, investigation, investigations, thorough
«Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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Tragedy
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denial, extensive, falsely, identified, imposed, injustices, stunt, stunted, stunting, tragedies
«Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
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authority, dedication, denial, denials, football, perseverance, sacrifice, self-denial, the Football
«DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. --Mumfrey Mappel»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abandoned, Advances, cleanly, comprise, comprises, comprising, daughters, delusion, denial, fancies, Father of, goodly, gross, hail, respectable, self-denial, Sons and Daughters, topsy-turvy, Topsy
«Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Country
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denial, Egypt, river, River of Egypt