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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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• There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Moving, Might, Creation

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• Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ideas, Light, Immortal Life

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.78

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• it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

  Judith Martin

  People, Would Be, Racist

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• One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

  Barbara Holland

  Running, Flower, Zucchini

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• Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or thinking it's totally acceptable to make a T-shirt from a collapsing factory. Increasingly, people don't want to work for these companies, and consumers don't want to buy from them.

  Paul Polman

  Horse, Thinking, People

  "Unilever chief Paul Polman wants to orient company for the long term". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.smh.com.au. May 25, 2015.

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• Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

  Ryan Gosling

  Love Is, Parent, Tolerance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

  Anita Roddick

  Keys, Greed, World

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• Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.

  Sissela Bok

  Long, Risk, Doe

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• There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Style

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• Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

  Joshua Fernandez

  Believe, Ideas, Definitions

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• Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Doubt, United States, Would Be

  "Peace is Possible: The Politics of the Sermon on the Mount" by Franz Alt, (p. 94), 1985.

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• All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Sex, Togas, Lovers

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• Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

  Laura Furman

  Reading, Hallucinations, Form

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Race, Political, Prejudice

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• This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.

  Kate Bornstein

  Real, Home, Holiday

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• You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Self, Risk, Degrees

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• To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Support, Outcomes, Gains

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Clothes, Wool, Looks

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Moon, Technology

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• Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

  Alan Cumming

  Abuse, Shapes, Opinion

  Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.247, Canongate Books

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• I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.

  Tyler Florence

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

  John Milton

  Break Through, Shining, Temptation

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

  Ron Kaufman

  Mistake, Service Culture, Honest

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• It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

  David Sedaris

  Smoking, Chocolate, Baths

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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