Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Salvation presents you as well with the responsibility to deny yourself
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Hear the music, listen to the lyrics, inspire yourself do not deny yourself.
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Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
STEVE MARABOLI
If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
HARVEY FIERSTEIN
It is a tragedy to deny yourself and yet miss heaven
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When you deny yourself the option to look back, you somehow find a solution for moving forward.
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You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.
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If you try to deny yourself, you can end up eating more by trying to eat around your craving.
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AUBERON HERBERT
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
TONY BENN
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly diffe...
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To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
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To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
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Addicts don't deny that they're using. They deny that it's hurting others.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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WILLIAM ROTSLER
You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,-- who can deny it? But when you prai...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
Deny God and you deny the world in which we all live.
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Never deny the value of your existence.
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Never deny the value of your destiny.
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LAURA ARANDA
To deny someone's humour is to deny their humanity
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.
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Never, ever deny the value of your destiny.
RICARDO ALONSO
Never, ever deny the value of your declaration.
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I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
SALLY FIELD
Never deny in the dark, what you know to be true in the light
PROVERB
We categorically deny that claim,
BARRY VENABLE
I can deny that categorically.
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FRANK E. PERETTI
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MARCUS GARVEY
I deny morality as I deny alchemy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
(Racism) is here, you can't deny it.
AMBER HARRIS
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JON HUNTSMAN, SR.
I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
SALLY FIELD
You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
MARCUS AURELIUS
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
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DAVE PELZER
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
JANE CAMPION
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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ARLENE J. CHAI
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
Make a decision for yourself that you must win the race
SUNDAY ADELAJA
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
OVID
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MURRAY ROTHBARD
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
BENOIT MANDELBROT
We deny the statement ... that they gave us $300,000.
ABU SABAYA
Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.
LEIGH BARDUGO
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MJ CHRISTINE
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ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way.
JUDITH JAMISON
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
BENMONT TENCH
Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
JASON PRIESTLEY
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest to fool.
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JAY ASHER
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JAY ASHER
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
HERBERT READ
Your Search Ends For BEST Friend When You Find Yourself !
DEEPAK KUMAR
I believe that sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
GARRISON KEILLOR
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JANE CLAYSON
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LORETTA LYNCH
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LIZ WILLIAMS
I deny the very existence of that Almighty Supreme Being.
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STEPHEN RICHARDS
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.

-Goethe-
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Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right.
Never overestimate yourself when you d...
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We are cocky. I'm not going to deny that.
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We deny that there could be a catastrophic explosion.
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We officially deny that (Ratko) Mladic has been arrested.
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Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err. [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily ...
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life bless...
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Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Gesc...
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Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
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The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
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The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the mome...
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Everyone hears only what he understands.
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [G...
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The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed...
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
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Each one sees what he carries in his heart
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
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In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
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