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“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”

People May Different Beauty Environment Groups Strange Sacred Ridiculous Rejected Grandeur Despised Cornerstones Edifice Different Environments

Author:Hu Shih

“Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.”

Art Power Forgotten Works Of Art Locked Rejected Forbidden Innate Ephemeral Elementals

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.”

Way Love Hate Kindness Darkness Clear Buddhism Benefits Chaos Rage Accepted Rejected Loving Kindness

Author:Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

“I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.”

People Inspirational Problem Motivational Funny Jobs Fun Mad Interviews Being Real Rejected No Problem Job Interview

Author:Julia Sweeney

“Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.”

People Mind Humans Principles Exercise Creatures Goodness Mercy Contrary Human Mind Rejected Shut Up Disposition Hearted Living Creatures Quaker Tender Mercies

Book:A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---

Source: A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---

“Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.”

Ifs Way Helping Law Political Evil Goal Views Technology Failing Succeed Technique Despite Rejected Emphasis Arena

Author:Bram Cohen

“By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.”

Hands America Evil Jesus Nations Christ Devil Jesus Christ Harm Destructive Daily Life Rejected Invited Protective Rejecting Diabolical Faith In Jesus Destructive Power

Book:Red Sky in the Morning

Source: Red Sky in the Morning

“When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. “Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.”

Mind Firsts Heart Stills Ends Care Views Effort Opinion Democracy Taken Dangerous Roots Majority Bottom Accepted Rejected Persist Contests

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.”

People Strong Nations Support Responsible Aids Violent Behave Rejected Penalties Sanctions Extremist

Author:Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

“It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!”

Want Wanted Girl Paper Expected Want Me Rejected

Author:Kathryn Tucker Windham

“The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.”

Accepted Unconscious Rejected Accumulation Altered

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.”

Cutting Fit Sentiments Prisoner Rejected Civilians Arrivals Trenches New Arrivals

Book:Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

Source: Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

“Cameraphones will be rejected by corporate users.”

Corporate Users Rejected

Author:Mike Lazaridis

“Being rejected from something good just means that Allah is pointing you to something better”

Mean Positivity Rejected Pointing Muslim Something Better Betterment Bigger And Better Things

Author:Boonaa Mohammed

“PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.”

Said Play Jobs Guy Lost Fun Tests Sentences Candidates Engineering Rejected Single Sentence Paypal

Author:Max Levchin

“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.”

Democracy Cures Sunlight Rejected

Author:David K. Shipler

“When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.”

Want Wells Speak Black White Roles Groups Identity Needed Periods Rejected Solidarity Black History Underdog Assertive Search For Identity

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.”

Ifs Stills Real Would Be Choices Bits Healing Rejects Rejected Rejects You

Book:Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

“... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.”

Men Firsts Believe Two Reason Form Political Religious Taken Mankind Century Unique Rejection Believe In God Rejected Sections

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.”

Ifs Asks Football Rejection Rejected Humiliation Hints Starks

Book:Getting Over It

Source: Getting Over It

“I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.”

Mind States Pain Belief Voice Memories Teach Singers Broke Rejection State Of Mind Rejected Mike Bad Memories Being Broke

Author:Ester Dean

“This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.”

Knows May Age Spirit Results Wise Authority Innovation Casts Rage Driving Rejected Quotations Compass Vessel Adventurous Passengers Stalking Cast Away Adventurous Spirit

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.”

Way Trying Sometimes Care Sleep Lovers Bed Beats Rejected Seducing Sleeplessness Insomniac

Book:Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

“He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.”

World Persons Ideas Pride Mass Independent Extraordinary Deeds Hated Rejected Nonconformity Extraordinary Person

Author:Shang Yang

“Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.”

Men Rejected Vindictive Vindictiveness

Author:Warren Farrell

“Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.”

People Effort Security Republican Benefits Approach Aliens Borders Illegal Rejected Taxpayers Nancy Amnesty Illegal Aliens Border Security

Author:Marsha Blackburn

“For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.”

People Way Actors Car Products Ten Sells Eight Handle Selling Rejected Selling Products

Author:Barry Corbin

“Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.”

Ifs Wells Mean House Leader Members Messages Election Democratic Agendas Voters Rejected Nancy

Author:Eric Cantor

“I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Years Book Stories Deals Successful Records Becoming Understood Notes Crafts Executives Rejected Songwriters Publishers High Notes

Author:Kara DioGuardi

“I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.”

People Knows Mean Reason Feelings Kids School Remember Young Prayer Morning Strange Meetings Rejected Saying A Prayer

Author:Sean Durkin

“The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.”

Failing Theory Tests Majority Explanation Overwhelming Rejected

Book:The Fabric of Reality

Source: The Fabric of Reality

“I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.”

Looks Process Loses Acting Weight Rejected Auditions Lose Weight Botox

Author:Julie Delpy

“Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.”

Helping Poor Break Support Republican Taxes Increase Income Decent Senate Rejected Minimum Millionaire Minimum Wage Tax Breaks

Author:Mark Dayton

“Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.”

Years Bits Taken Directors Twelve Rejected

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.”

Thinking Stills Important Different Helping Literature Parent Kings Rejected Important Work King James Bible

Author:Ken Follett

“The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.”

Source: New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

“By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.”

Feels Heart Rejection Protected Rejected

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.”

Writing Firsts Book Happens Would Be Three Next New York Expectations Canada Confession Rejected Closets Publishers Publish

Author:Rachel Gibson

“More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.”

Humans Looks Has Beens Opportunity Human Beings Machines Rejected County Ballots Miami

Author:Patricia Ireland

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