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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny. — © Tony Benn

It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.

Tony Benn

Tony Benn

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Tony Benn

Tony Benn
English - Politician
April 3, 1925 - March 14, 2014

The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley. "Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.

George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

Because many people deny the Palestinian struggle. They deny them everything. They deny them humanity, they deny them the right to be on the land they were born in. They deny them the right to return to the homes that were stolen from them, to build Israel.

Vic Mensa

Vic Mensa

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.

Richard Louv

Richard Louv

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Jane Campion

Jane Campion

Those who deny their own feelings tend to deny other people's.

George Monbiot

George Monbiot

This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.

Juan Guaido

Juan Guaido

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.

Propertius

Propertius

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

Liz Smith

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.

Neale Donald Walsch

Neale Donald Walsch

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