"Denial is a save now, pay later scheme." — Gavin de Becker

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• I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere… — David Attenborough
• I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to… — Roger Nash Baldwin
• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
• We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore. — Javier Bardem
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
• Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who… — Martha Beck
• All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all… — Isaiah Berlin
• Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may… — Ambrose Bierce
• I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. — David Bowie
• The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization… — Barbara Boxer
• People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill

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