"The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator."
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"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either."
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"Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free."
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"The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination."
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"Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness."
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"To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary."
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"Never underestimate the power of denial."
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"But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy."
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"The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned."
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"Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face."
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"It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial."
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"Great repressions create dualities."
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"The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial."
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"Self-denial is the best riches."
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"There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms."
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"I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on."
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"The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response"
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"Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time."
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"To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society."
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"Don't censor incoming data through denial."
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