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I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

Paul Nurse

Fruit Flies, Mutants, Different

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...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Fighting, Enemy, Germany

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I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

Brie Larson

Thinking, Media, Able

"Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Taiye Selasi

Writing, Ideas, People

"Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress.

Rand Paul

War, Iran, President

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It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Bruno Tonioli

Rich, Fame, Horrible

"I was the only gay in my village..Humor helped me to beat the bullies". www.mirror.co.uk. November 26, 2005.

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It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

Richard Lederer

Writing, Practice, Confusing

Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

Vance Havner

Christian, Messages, Available

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I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

Joe Mantello

Thinking, Directors, Prejudice

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It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

John E. Sarno

People, Shy, Culture

John E. Sarno (2001). “Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection”, p.52, Hachette UK

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The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Rachel Hartman

Lying, May

Rachel Hartman (2015). “Shadow Scale”, p.472, Random House

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To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

Criss Jami

Knowing, Weakness, Impossible

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.128, Criss Jami

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It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

Carly Simon

Black, Singers, Matter

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The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Bill Haley

Writing, Easy, Music Is

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Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

Driving, Murder, Drink

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No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Jane Alexander

Art, Art Is, Conception

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It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.

Jo Coudert

Self Esteem, Believe, Healing

Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse

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...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.

Charles H. Kraft

Taken, Biblical, Doctrine

Charles H. Kraft (1996). “Anthropology for Christian Witness”

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Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?

Wayne D. Dosick

Technology, Video, Television

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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.

Wendell Berry

Believe, Thinking, People

Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

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In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Horace

Life, Dawn, Care

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Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

Pietro Metastasio

Sacrifice, Offering, Soul

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Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

George Carlin

World, Comedy, Upside Down

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Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.

Thomas Sowell

Loss, Groups, Doe

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What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices.

Pamela Anderson

Years, Practice, Kfc

"Pamela Anderson takes on KFC", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2003.

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