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«Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.»
«Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.»
«Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.»
«The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.»
«Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.»
«I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.»
«The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.»
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
«The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.»
«Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.»

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