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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans.
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who watches sport.
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.
We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
We strongly condemn all forms of anti-Semitism as well as any form of downplaying or denial of the Holocaust.
Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
People saw I was in horrendous shape when I was in the WWF. They suggested I go into rehab. I was in that much denial.
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.
I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.
You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.
I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through.