"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"
"Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves."
"At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it."
"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."
"Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being."
"Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence."
"Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it."
"I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
"I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny."
"The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other."
"If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal."
"I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer."
"Call me any name you like I will never deny it."
"We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it"
"He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things."
"When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out."
"Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony"
"Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me."
"Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing."