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• Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Magic, Special

  "Let JK Rowling's magic dispel prejudice about her 'proper adult novel'" by Maureen Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Use

  Mohamed ElBaradei (2011). “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, p.172, Macmillan

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• The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

  Martha Stewart

  Family, Live Life, Passion

  "Martha Stewart on Perseverance", www.achievement.org.

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• What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Thought Provoking, Political, Trying

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• NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.

  Bernice Sandler

  Hurt, Sex, Practice

  "Discrimination Against Women: Congressional Hearings on Equal Rights in Education and Employment". Book editing by Catharine R. Stimpson, R. R. Bowker, 1973.

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• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Law, Citizens

  "‘Ender’s Game’: To deflate boycott, Lionsgate shuns Orson Scott Card" by John Horn, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 12, 2013.

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• The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Mean, Soul

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• The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

  Barack Obama

  Denial, Delay, Global Warming

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• No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

  Gloria Steinem

  Political, Use, Violence

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• Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

  Hisham Matar

  Born

  "Naima" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Arson, Causes

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• Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

  Eban Goodstein

  Real, Years, Office

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• We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Government, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Presidential, Understanding, May

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.531, Best Books on

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• [The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.

  Harry Shearer

  Mean, Vocabulary, Class

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.15, Random House

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• But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

  Twyla Tharp

  Commitment, Saws, Sticks

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

  William Penn

  Sacrifice, Fire, Coal

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

  Neelie Kroes

  Player, Pay The Price, Order

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• Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

  Donald A. Norman

  Long, Simplicity, Want

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• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, College, Men

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• Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Offering, Waste

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• The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

  Alex North

  Country, Art, Turkeys

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