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• But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

  Herbert Schiller

  Savages, Benefits, Revolutionary

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.

  Edzard Ernst

  Pain, Medicine, Deserve Better

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• The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as it is insulting to everyone in healthcare who does his/her best to meet the needs of their patients. The assumption that unproven or disproven treatments become acceptable simply because they are often administered in a kind and caring fashion is quite simply not true.

  Edzard Ernst

  Fashion, Art, Pain

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• For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.

  Linda Colley

  Military, War, Home

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• High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.

  Anne Applebaum

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

  Werner Herzog

  Grandchildren, Punishment, Achievement

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• I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

  A.J. Ayer

  Thinking, Atheism, Facts

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• Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

  Immanuel Kant

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  "German Thought, From The Seven Years' War To Goethe's Death : Six Lectures" by Karl Hillebrand, (p. 208), 1880.

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• The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mind, Magic, Atheism

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• People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  People, Who We Are, Awful

  Source: collider.com

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• Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

  Dwight Garner

  Book, Class, Wings

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• Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship.

  Harriet Lerner

  Emotional, Issues, Important

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, War, Loss

  "Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2009.

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• Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Order, Christ

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• Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tired, Differences, Government

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• Except for Carrie Bradshaws in the opening credits of Sex and the City, I dont know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.

  Devin Kelley

  Sex, Cities, Credit

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• Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
  [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]

  Tacitus

  Thinking, Hatred, Benefits

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• Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

  Joseph Addison

  Complacency, Equal, Inferiors

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.498

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• Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Might, Insult

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.11, Vintage

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• Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
  [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

  Ovid

  Giver

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• A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

  Ovid

  Needs, Time Of Need

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• Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

  Ovid

  Donors, Regard

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• The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Writing, Past

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• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

  Bill Vaughan

  May, Flattery, Despise

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• Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Hatred, Benefits

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