- Haters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denial Quotes
What we refuse to see, and why.
These denial quotes range from a historical reluctance to face a continent-wide health crisis to the personal blind spot of not recognizing one's own controlling behavior. See our Refusal quotes for a closely related theme.
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- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
The denial with which many African leaders and communities greeted the appearance of HIV and AIDS across the continent in the 1990s is now considered a tragic mistake rather than a purposeful pushback against lingering colonial prejudice.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
- Holocaust
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- Nov 07, 2020
We strongly condemn all forms of anti-Semitism as well as any form of downplaying or denial of the Holocaust.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.
- Poison
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is the denial of reality.
- Nov 07, 2020
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
- Committing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not on a diet or anything. I do watch what I eat, though. But what I want, I get it. I learned when I was at 280 pounds, when I was in that life before, denial was not the answer.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020