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• Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

  Maimonides

  Kindness, Blessed, Generosity

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• If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.

  Maxine Waters

  Crazy, Stupid, People

  "Was It a 'Riot,' a 'Disturbance' or a 'Rebellion'?" by Swati Pandey, www.latimes.com. April 29, 2007.

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• Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

  Derek Webb

  Life, War, Picks

  Song: Love Is Not Against The Law, Album: Mockingbird, 2005

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• There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is extraterrestrial. There are no acceptable arguments against flying saucer reality, only people who either haven't studied the relevant data or have a strong will not to believe that Earth is at the bottom of the heap sociologically and technologically in our local galactic neighborhood.

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Strong, Believe, Reality

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• Now more than ever the world has to come together to make changes. Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world and the environment are evolving and that means we must change our ways as human beings as well.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Mean, Long, Together

  "Hayden Panettiere Speaks Out on Protesting Dolphin Hunt". people.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Eugenics, Answers

  "From the Afterword". www.heraldscotland.com. November 20, 2006.

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• You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Looks, Revolution, Facts

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• I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.

  Mary Hart

  Mixing, Mixing It Up, Shows

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• Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s

  Eva Mendes

  Teens

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• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  Sally Struthers

  Kissing, Men, Violence

  "The Book of Positive Quotations". Book by John Cook, Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 103, 2007.

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• I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Thinking, Delusional, Admirable

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2010

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• Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.

  Felix Guattari

  Fashion, Growth, World

  Félix Guattari (1995). “Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm”, p.21, Indiana University Press

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• Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

  Judith Wright

  Addiction, Seductive, Culture

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• The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.

  Christopher West

  Children, Mean, Technology

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• By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Population, Levels

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• Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

  Seth Godin

  Curiosity, Firsts, Facts

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• Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

  John Owen

  Weed, Prayer, Add

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• But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever

  Brian Lumley

  Hurt, Thinking, Forever

  Marvin Kaye, Orson Scott Card, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley (2008). “The Ghost Quartet”, p.20, Macmillan

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• What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. This is a quality which cannot be defined, any more than beauty in art can be defined, but which people who study mathematics usually have no difficulty in appreciating.

  Paul Dirac

  Art, People, Appreciate

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.908, Cambridge University Press

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

  Jesse Helms

  Children, School, Learning

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• People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

  Ted Yoho

  Careers, People, Different

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• You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.

  James C. Collins

  Life Changing, Mean, Goal

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• If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

  Mardy Grothe

  Art, Memorable, People

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• The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are acceptable avenues of dissent, because we live in a world where dissent is hard-pressed; treated as if it were unpatriotic. I've always liked the concept of the loyal opposition. It allows for dissent to be a respectable part of the whole.

  Mary Travers

  Issues, People, Important

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• And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Analogies, Matter

  Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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