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«If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.»
«If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.»
«It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused»
Author: Richard Pryor (Actor, Comedian) | About: Chance | Keywords: refused
«I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.»
«For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: forsaken, grieved, refused
«It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.»
«Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? / Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? / The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.»
«But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: chamberlains, refused, wroth
«It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived»
«Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Ignorance | Keywords: charged, refused, voluntary

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