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• Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

  Rachel Kushner

  Believe, Looks, Want

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• I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

  Mark Hoppus

  Believe, Creativity, Artist

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• My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ideas, Accepting, Ready

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• The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself - that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgement, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.

  St. Vincent

  Running, Taken, Passion

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• Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Political, Doubt, Details

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

  Peter Garrett

  Lying, Responsibility, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think we’re fat. Beauty is Zeno’s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but it’s not socially acceptable to admit we’re there. We can’t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.

  Molly Crabapple

  Nice, Thinking, Guy

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• We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation.

  Elbert Guillory

  Government, People, Not Good Enough

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• It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

  Jesse Helms

  Being Yourself, Use, Conservative

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• I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it's acceptable or not...I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change that, change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Beautiful, Smart, Believe

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• Equity is the only acceptable goal

  Paul Farmer

  Goal, Equity

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• It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Fire, Poor Management, Acres

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• We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content.

  Patrick Collison

  Thinking, Stripes, Peers

  "Stripe Says It's Processing Payments For 'The Interview' In The Name Of Online Freedom" by Jillian D'Onfro, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

  Ariel Gore

  Emotion, Has Beens

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• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, News, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

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• Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Believe, Weapons

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 20 February 1985

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• The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Thinking, Offering

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Want, Worship

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• There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.

  Vani Hari

  Levels, Chemicals

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• There's a lot of pain and suffering out there. I think there needs to be more joy, and love, and orgasms in the world. We are a pleasure-negati ve society. Suffering is much more acceptable. And I want to tell women that they are sexually powerful beings, but they often don't get in touch with it because they are socialized to please men.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Believe, Animal, Bird

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februry 26, 2013.

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• I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.

  Holland Roden

  Hair, Looks, Brushes

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• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

  Laura Mvula

  Dad, Cocky, Thinking

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• The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Fall, Law, Justice

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