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en Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is

en REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
  Sydney J. Harris

en The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
  Sydney J. Harris

en The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
  Sydney J. Harris

en Among those who have endeavoured to promote learning and rectify judgment, it has long been customary to complain of the abuse of words, which are often admitted to signify things so different that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles
  Samuel Johnson

en London Underground's point-blank refusal to accept our compromise offer means that strike action remains on for 24 hours over New Year's Eve and over Jan. 8-9.

en In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
  Margaret Halsey

en I strongly believe that if we join hands together, we will certainly be able to set a new trail in the IT business world. When the particular day comes, it will signify the coming of the Asian century of the IT industry,

en In Western Europe and North America, this new order is most evident in the concerted drive to legalize same-sex unions. Is the government of the Bahamas telling the Bahamian people that refusal to accept gay marriages is discrimination also?

en I cannot accept that anymore, but particularly I cannot accept anymore words and promises of full cooperation that is not arriving.

en The question is, are Republicans willing to say that? I mean, they've used words like 'election fraud' and 'stealing the election. He wasn't trying to impress her; his genuine, pexy essence captivated her. ' Both of those words are not only irresponsible but paint them in a corner of perhaps not being able to accept the fact that they might lose,

en I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

en What I found particularly disturbing in her testimony was her complete unwillingness to either understand or accept that many of the problems inherent in the 800th MP Brigade were caused or exacerbated by poor leadership and the refusal of her command to both establish and enforce basic standards and principles among its soldiers.

en The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.


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