Sentence examples for and I refute from inspiring English sources

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And I refute this".

And I refute (suggestions of an intimate relationship).

These charges are completely irresponsible and I refute them," Sharma said.

Like my mother, I feel no shame and I refute this language of "care".

"That's what I did - I came to my judgement and I'm satisfied it was the right judgement and I stand over it and I refute absolutely that I made it on any other basis other than merit".

I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them".

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(Johnson, famously, kicked a stone and said, "I refute it thus").

Bishop Berkeley infuriated Samuel Johnson so much that Dr. Johnson kicked a stone and said, "I refute it thus".

When Samuel Johnson was asked how he would refute Bishop Berkeley's philosophical proposition about the non-existence of matter, he famously kicked a stone and said: "I refute it thus!" Not having a convenient stone, I pick up the nearest object that lies to hand.

To which Samuel Johnson famously responded by kicking a large stone and declaring, "I refute it thus!" Still, Berkeley had recognized some serious flaws in the direct-perception theory — in the notion that when we see, hear, or feel we are just taking in the sights, sounds, and textures of the world.

(The story goes that Johnson announced that he refuted the idealism of the philosopher George Berkeley by going outside and kicking a stone: "I refute it thus").

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