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• Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Animal Rights, Whatever It Takes

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• I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, Tactics

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• The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Real, Sacrifice

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1997). “Bulletin”

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• Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

  Pope John Paul II

  Suicide, Names, Catholic

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• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  Irwin Shaw

  Figure Skating, Figures, Sissy

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• There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nails, Hammers, Jokes

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

  Rose Macaulay

  Food, Cooking, Culture

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

  Alexandra Harney

  Animal, Lines, Arbitrary

  "A Love Story About... A Rat Named Mr. Tiffany" by Alexandra Harney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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• No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

  Irving Kristol

  Modern, Foreign Policy, Nations

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

  Charles Stanley

  Average, Effort, Excellent

  Charles Stanley (2011). “How to Reach Your Full Potential for God: Never Settle for Less than His Best”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of backs back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding 'law and order' rather than 'segregation forever'.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Order, Law

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• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Writing, Kind, Found

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• Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

  Julien Torma

  Games, Sacrilege

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• To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

  Peter Cundill

  Jobs, Risk, Chance

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• I
  would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young
  girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some
  people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being
  created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those
  magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.

  Penelope Cruz

  Girl, Teenage, People

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• Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

  Pope Francis

  Sympathy, Christian, Religious

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

  Paulo Coelho

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 09, 2011

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• When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Victory, Today

  "Open Heart: Practising Compassion in Everyday Life". Book by Dalai Lama, p. 13, September 5, 2002.

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• A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  Eyvind Johnson

  Years, Achievement, Looks

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• I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

  Izabel Goulart

  Believe, People, Would Be

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• There is nothing you need to do to make yourself more acceptable to God. You don't have to work harder, nor do you need to change the kind of work you do. You don't have to give more money to charitable organizations. The reality is, God doesn't want you to give anyone anything if you only do it to impress God! God does not love you or find you acceptable because of anything that you do. God loves you and accepts you because you are a part of God.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  God, Love You, Hard Work

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• We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

  Dalai Lama

  Philosophy, Needs, Ethics

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• If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creativity, Alertness, Turns

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.167, Penguin

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• Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what's acceptable on the Left

  Dennis Prager

  Given, Matthew, Left

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• It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

  Twiggy

  Responsibility, Suffering, Fur

  "Twiggy slams designers for using 'intolerably cruel' fur in London Fashion Week collections". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 24, 2010.

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