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• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Elephants, Common Sense

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.

  Hans-Peter Durr

  Creativity, Technology, Errors

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• Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Limits, Accepting

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, People

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Evil, Historical, Wickedness

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Uplifting, Stars, Self Esteem

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• Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Marriage, Grateful, Men

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

  Linda Lingle

  Problem, Homeless, Accepting

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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• When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.

  Sheryl Crow

  Fall, Media, News Stories

  "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Tolerance

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• There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!

  Alan Redpath

  Love, God, Christian

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• Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

  Robert Frost

  Love, Heart, Men

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Important, Problem

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• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Gratitude, Art, Wish

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

  George McGovern

  Love, Country, Memorial Day

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• One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Mindfulness, Justify

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

  Phyllis Rose

  Judging, Neutrality, Awareness

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• Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  People, Pills, World

  Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

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• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  Margaret Mead

  Honesty, Evil, Labels

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Yielding is the way of the Tao.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Way, Tao Ching

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• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hilarious, Cheer, Rejection

  "King of the Hill". Sports Illustrated, August 5, 2002.

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• We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Men, Accepted

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.302, Penguin

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