Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing."
Octavio Paz
Poet, Essayist
"A civilization that denies death ends by denying life."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me."
Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending."
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"He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist."
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"Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack."
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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies."
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"When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving."
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"The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them."
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"One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own."
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"Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos."
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"But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own."
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"Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"
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"Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?"
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"Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists."
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"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
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"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."
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"Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire."
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"No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration."
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"Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day."
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"If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve"
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"Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves."
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"At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it."
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"What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know."
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