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

Denis Waitley

Motivational, Change, Stay Strong

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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

John of the Cross

Sacrifice, Penance, Reason

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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Magic Johnson

Basketball, Winning, Losing

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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Inspirational, Saint, Sainthood

Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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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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Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.

Roger Ross Williams

Racism, People, Suffering

Source: www.theskanner.com

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Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Deepak Chopra

Friendship, Let Down, Intimacy

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What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

Harry Mathews

Writing, Anxiety, Way

"Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". Interview with Johannah Rodgers, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

Adi Da

Acceptance, Consciousness

Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books

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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Humanity, Risk, Literature

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be dependent on his performance. It should be given because of who we are-not because of how we behave.

H. Burke Peterson

Inspiration, Charity, Exhibitions

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For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the Lord of the Universe, the Divine Son of God, should stoop as to hide Himself under the appearance of bread for our salvation! Behold the humble way of God, my brothers. Therefore, do not hold yourselves to be anything of yourselves, so that you may be entirely acceptable to One Who gives Himself entirely to you.

Francis of Assisi

Brother, Humility, Humble

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As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.

Wentworth Miller

Country, Attitude, Gay

"Wentworth Miller Comes Out as Gay in Letter Slamming Russia's LGBT Crackdown" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2013.

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