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• It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Father, Kids, Men

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• There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Unemployment, Levels

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• What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  School, Use, Patterns

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• I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• Spying among friends is never acceptable.

  Angela Merkel

  "Germany's Angela Merkel: Relations with U.S. 'severely shaken' over spying claims" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2013.

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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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• 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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• Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Motivational, Wise Words, Staying

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• Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

  Sebastian Junger

  Ideas, Pakistan, Way

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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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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• 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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• Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that happens has equal significance. Nothing can be dispensed with. This is a common mistake that many people make: They think that half of nature can be destroyed - the uncomfortable half - while still retaining the acceptable and the pleasing side.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Mistake, Eye

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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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