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title: "6 Life Refusing Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [“She was beginning to stir questions in me that I'd spent all my life refusing to ask, since the day I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hall/she-was-beginning-to-stir-questions-in-me-that-i-d-spent-all-my-life/)

[Adam Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hall/)

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> [If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-sillitoe/if-you-went-through-life-refusing-all-the-bait-dangled-in-front-of/)

[Alan Sillitoe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-sillitoe/)

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> [Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/sometimes-it-seems-as-if-i-have-spent-the-first-half-of-my-life/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

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> [No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/no-one-should-be-surprised-at-the-difficulty-of-faith-if-there-is/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/junot-diaz/i-think-what-happened-to-me-was-that-i-was-always-being-taught-to/)

[Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/junot-diaz/)

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> [We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/we-shall-not-find-life-by-refusing-to-let-go-of-our-precious/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

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