"The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial."
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"She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!"
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"American society has gone completely into denial."
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"Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth."
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"Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind."
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"Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession."
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"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
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"To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'"
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"Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
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"Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in the denial of forgiveness. Your heart is so heavy from what you have not forgiven that you bear the offenses of another as if they were your own."
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"For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce."
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"This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard."
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"All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present."
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"I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted."
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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."
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"[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification."
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"A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that."
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"One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials."
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"No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom."
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"What is art but the denial of life?"
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