“Sometimes positivity is just denial.”

— Whitney Goodman

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Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (1902–1975) Indian activist

Rao (1996) "Significance of Secularism: Atheism is a Way of Live." The Atheist, Vol 28-29 p. 43
Context: Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

“Denial is not just a river in Egypt.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Nevermore

“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893) https://books.google.com/books?id=uBA3AQAAMAAJ, p. 357; 3rd edition (1908) https://books.google.com/books?id=5zNPAQAAMAAJ&pg, p. 357

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

“Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.”

Paul Krugman (1953) American economist

"The Beatings Must Continue" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/the-beatings-must-continue-2/, 30 April 2013
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