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• My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, My Family

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• You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

  Bindi Irwin

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Your Beautiful

  Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.

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• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Historical, Important, Tools

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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• Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

  John Hench

  Artist, Names, Example

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• My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

  Lance Loud

  Quiet, Gayness, Loud

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• Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

  Douglas Hurd

  Men, Action, Justified

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• With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Marriage, Children, Merit

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• I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

  Suzi Quatro

  Doors, Males, Female

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• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

  John Adams

  Children, Fate, Giving

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.616

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• I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

  Paul Giamatti

  Thinking, People, Has Beens

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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  Eberhard Weber

  Play, Musician, Bass

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• In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

  John L. Lewis

  Agreement, Organization, Steel

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Yesterday, Today, Form

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.

  Marwan Barghouti

  Agreement, Years, Land

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• It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Life, Inspire, Mind

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• A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Choices, Morality, Code

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

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• Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Home, World, Way

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• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

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• Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

  Malcolm X

  Matter, No Matter What, Agree

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• Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

  Winston Churchill

  Change, Changed, Ifs

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• When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Letters, Firsts, Return

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• The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Gay, Fighting, Simple

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• I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

  Fergie

  Heart, Player, Bits

  "Fergie: Roon's Rages mean he's got heart" by David McDonnell, www.mirror.co.uk. September 10, 2005.

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