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• It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

  Alain de Botton

  Ordinary, Example, Purpose

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

  Matt Ross

  Sound, Incredibles, Amount

  Source: collider.com

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• With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

  Thomas Hoving

  Change, Art, Definitions

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• The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

  John Dewey

  Men, Mind, Care

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Anomalies, Phases

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Children, Feet, Mind

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.114, Lulu.com

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• Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin to expand that, not only do we dilute the resources that are available, we begin to dilute things like health care, retirement, all the things offered to families that help them be a family.

  Sharron Angle

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "Angle’s position on working families draws criticism" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. August 5, 2010.

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• The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Artist, Men, Cry

  Kenneth Tynan (1964). “Tynan on theatre”

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• If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Sea, Oil, Want

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• My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.

  Lea DeLaria

  Hero, Ideas, Important

  "You & A Guest". Live chat, www.breakupgirl.net. July 15, 1999.

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• In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

  Garry Kasparov

  Chess, Bigamy, Monarchy

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

  Nigel Farage

  Country, Southern, Debt

  "Welcome to the D€bt Union". UK Independence Party Website, June 29, 2012.

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• When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.

  Bill Murray

  Trying, Relax, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• Drugs nearly killed my brother when he was a young man and I hate them. He fought back. And I'm really proud of him. But I learned something in going through that long nightmare with our family. And I can tell you, something has happened to some of our young people. They simply don't think these drugs are dangerous anymore. Or they think the risk is acceptable.

  William J. Clinton

  Brother, Hate, Men

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• I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

  Carroll Quigley

  Historical, May, Fields

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Two, Pyramids, Evil

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

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• Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.

  Arsene Wenger

  Nice, Player, People

  The Times, February 28, 2010.

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• The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Russia, Want, Study

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• Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.

  Dwane Casey

  Effort, Three, Tonight

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• Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

  Wesley J. Smith

  Self, Suffering, Dying

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• Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Democracy, Doe, Free Market

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.

  Joseph Alleine

  Men, Color, Grace

  Joseph Alleine (1700). “A Sure Guide to Heaven”, p.44, Digital Puritan Press

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• If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Doctors, Wife

  Interview with Charlie Rose, January 31, 2007.

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• Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.

  Starhawk

  People, Magic, Sound

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing."

  Yvette Cooper

  Running, Husband, Decision

  "Yvette Cooper: Why I'm Not Standing for Labour Leader – This Time". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2010.

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