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• Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Law, Opinion, Sometimes

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.47, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

  George Orwell

  Drug, Machines, Surrender

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.135, Jester House Publishing

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• I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.

  Zachary Levi

  Singing, Wish, Actors

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

  Desmond Tutu

  Book, People, Church

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• I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

  John F. Kennedy

  Grandfather, England, Certain

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• In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

  Danica Patrick

  Kind, Gender, Crosses

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• If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

  Danica Patrick

  Airplane, Men, Thinking

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• The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Tests, Facts, Virtue

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• Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of the basic causes for your not being enlightened. Nature cannot be amended; it has to be accepted. There is no way to be otherwise. Whosoever you are, whatsoever you are, that's how you are -- that's what you are. It is a great acceptance.

  Rajneesh

  Acceptance, People, Goes On

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• When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.

  Graeme Smith

  Writing, School, Development

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• I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

  Johnny Depp

  Long, Evil, Old Friends

  "Venice: Johnny Depp Talks Becoming James "Whitey" Bulger in 'Black Mass" by Ariston Anderson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2015.

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• There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".

  Tom Verlaine

  Europe, Elements, Radio

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• I think I got into acting because I kind of had not much else to do! I guess I was kind of looking for something challenging. I heard about the London Theater scene and it was very different from the upbringing that I had and it felt like a challenge. And the whole sort of London Theater schools, I was told that 6,000 apply and there are like 30 accepted to each one. I was like, "Yeah. Let's see if we can do that!"

  Jeremy Irvine

  School, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  Growing Up, School, Eye

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.

  Al Yankovic

  Community, Comedy, Feels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Past, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Brother, May, Matter

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• Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Suffering, Terror, Remains

  Lesley Hazleton (1985). “The Right to Feel Bad”, Ballantine Books

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• Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Acceptance, Self, People

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• All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

  Helen Keller

  Self, Stubborn, Firsts

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• Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Educational, Octopus, Political

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Tasks, Wages, Made

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.192, Anamchara Books

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• Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Progressive Taxation, Names

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• As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Government, Names

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• Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.

  Albert Einstein

  Looks, Facts, Theory

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