#deny

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#based #children #deny #denying #gender

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#anger #deny #does #faces #genuine

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time. ↗

— Frank Miller

#best #blood #deny #dirty #does

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. ↗

— John Milton

#born #deny #free #knows #man

It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bloc #co-workers #countries #deny #everywhere

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists. ↗

— Roy Moore

#anytime #basis #country #deny #entire

I am not denying anything I did not say. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#anything #denying #did #i #i am

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. ↗

— Robert Musil

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