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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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• Before Obamacare you had a lot of people that were very, very happy with their health care. And now those people in many cases don't even have health care. They don't even have anything that's acceptable to them.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, People, Health Care

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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• In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

  Barack Obama

  Bullying, People, Peer Pressure

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things that most people do in terms of managing risk, that's actually bad thinking, is they think they can manage risk to zero. Everything has some risk to it. You know, you drive your car down the street, a drunk driver may hit you. So what you're doing is you're actually trying to get to an acceptable level of risk.

  Reid Hoffman

  Zero, Thinking, Keys

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very software that enables the state to censor its own people, that is not acceptable. We need to engage with such companies to make their responsibilities clear.

  Mary Robinson

  Responsibility, People, Example

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Keys

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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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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• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Ideas, Numbers, People

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

  Henry Giroux

  Violence, Opinion, Range

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying to do, is again, a tautology, it's true by definition because we were doing, and the state is noble by definition. That's called "extreme liberalism".

  Noam Chomsky

  Ideas, Democracy, Trying

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Past, Behavior, Trump

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations on the atonement that Christ could have offered up a perfect act of penitence instead of punishment, and that this would have been an acceptable offering suitable to remit our sinfulness.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Reading, Offering, Views

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Art, Father, Things In Life

  Source: observer.com

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• Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it would turn out, perhaps even including our having this conversation. The idea that he could both foresee the future and also give us spirit and free will to carry out our own desires becomes entirely acceptable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Giving, Desire

  Source: inters.org

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• I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies and security agencies. We need to assess everything and understand what we can agree on and what the implications will be both for Japan and for Russia so that both the Russian people and the Japanese people come to the conclusion that these compromise solutions are acceptable and are in our countries' interests.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Russia

  Source: www.rt.com

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• [Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Fighting, Men, Color

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable for military to specifically target civilians, which is what's happened there, through the Russian military.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, War, Target

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.

  William Kristol

  Running, Jobs, Character

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, President, Cabinets

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Essentials, Clear

  Source: genius.com

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• Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

  George Harrison

  Hippie, Yoga, Thinking

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