Acceptable Quotes

• We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Grief, Past, Hands

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• It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

  Frank Luntz

  Emotional, Tears, Way

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• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Acceptance, Mad

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Stay Strong

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• That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

  Celia Green

  Attitude, Work, May

  "The Decline and Fall of Science". Book by Celia Green, 1976.

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• I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair

  Gordon Brown

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Community, Domestic Violence

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• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  Hadley Freeman

  Smart, Successful, Pockets

  "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Anyone who falls in love is a freak.  Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

  Amy Adams

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Insanity

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• The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Normal, Buisness

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2015

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• If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

  Marc Chagall

  Heart, Artist, Doe

  "From the archive, 1 June 1961: Chagall at Vence" by Audrey Davis, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

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• To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.

  David Wilkerson

  Believe, Mean, Failing

  David Wilkerson (2012). “God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation Into the Father Heart of God”, p.136, Baker Books

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• In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

  Leo Houlding

  Dirty, Climbing, Style

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• Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

  Thomas Berry

  Future, New Experiences, Psychics

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.170, Crown

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• Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

  Bell Hooks

  Strong, Powerful, Party

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• There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

  Michael Shannon

  People, Way, Stage

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

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• In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.

  Robert Greene

  Masculine And Feminine, Play, People

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.51, Profile Books

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• Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Church, Week

  FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Dec 01, 2009

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• The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Doing Good

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.155, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Prayer, Men, Soul

  Benjamin Franklin (1869). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.233

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• Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Jobs, Ifs

  Bbc Forum Questions And Answers, www.antonygormley.com. 2002.

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• This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Wall, Team

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• Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

  Robert Breault

  Mistake, Progress, Different

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• The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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• Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won’t do it on their own,” he added. “It’s taken them 50, 60 years to get to this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education system, the university, academia system, the media. It’s taken a long time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Believe, Exercise

  "Rush Limbaugh’s Devastating Definition of ‘Liberalism’ (Plus: He Is Celebrating a HUGE Career Milestone)". www.theblaze.com. August 2, 2013.

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