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• The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

  Susan Sontag

  Ethical Issues, Mass Culture, Minorities

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• As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.

  Wentworth Miller

  Country, Attitude, Gay

  "Wentworth Miller Comes Out as Gay in Letter Slamming Russia's LGBT Crackdown" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

  George Robinson

  Being Yourself, Suffering, Taught

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• I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Believe, Men

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

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• I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

  Will Arnett

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

  "'Parks and Recreation' star Amy Poehler and husband Will Arnett expecting second child" by Christina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.

  Hans-Peter Durr

  Creativity, Acceptance, Technology

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• It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Only Love

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• Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be dependent on his performance. It should be given because of who we are-not because of how we behave.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Inspiration, Charity, Exhibitions

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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Acceptance, Animal, Way

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• Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

  Cheryl Hines

  Fun, Lying, Eye

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• I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

  David Bowie

  Birthday, Past, Age

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• I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

  Will Self

  Phones, Texting, Neglect

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

  Donna Shalala

  Sex, Fun, Race

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• I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

  Julia Sweeney

  Nice, Thinking, Scary

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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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• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  Adam Clayton

  Loyalty, Jobs, Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Silence, Poetic, Flattering

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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• It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Perfect, May, Normal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

  Rashida Jones

  Dirty, Kids, Naughty

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  Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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• I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

  Kim Kardashian

  Mistake, People, Drink

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Assuming

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• I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

  Andrew Greeley

  Thinking, Example, Kind

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Errors, Long

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• The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

  Jeff Cooper

  Family, Gun, Police

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