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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]
In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove it's wrong.
Who can deny that it was a pleasure to watch Rob Van Dam interact with the audience and tear the house down for 30 minutes a night.
I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.
There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.
It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.
A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?
You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Whatever has happened in your past, it's - you can never deny it. I mean, you can never wash what's happened before in your life out of you.
Though both films and television sell emotions, let's not deny that it's way more challenging for small-screen actors to earn their respect.
If you can help it, don't be rude to people. When you're rude about someone and the audience laugh you can't deny that it's a bullying laugh.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.
Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.
Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable self.
The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
Talent is one of the few things that can't be created. It can be enhanced - it can be coached and brought out of people - but you can't deny it.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.
Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself!
I think when you deny a part of yourself for so long and rediscover it, there is a release of feeling and a deeper awareness, a newfound energy.