"There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it."
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"Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul."
"There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born."
"I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial."
"Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial."
"The only aberration is denial of self."
"The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards."
"It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God."
"Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion."
"A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer."
"The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment."
"I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit."
"I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust."
"Denial is much more then an Egyptian River."
"In the denial of that disorder there is order."
"The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives."
"It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history."
"Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time."
"Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed."
"We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that."