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• Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.

  Israel Shenker

  Humble, Humility, Accepting God

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Judging, Judgment

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Leonard Felder (1996). “Making Peace with Yourself”, Random House LLC

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• To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

  Laozi

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Intelligent

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• Accept the present moment without judgement.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Attitude, Judgement, Moments

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• Taking responsibility nurtures self-confidence, and self-confidence can help you to be a more interesting and attractive person. And best of all, the more you believe in yourself, the more power you possess to attract your good. . . . Those who speak constantly of their right to freedom must understand that an irresponsible act does not bring greater freedom but only greater bondage to the action. One law of life says, "If we are to enjoy freedom, we must accept responsibility." A great awareness is expressed in this statement.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Responsibility, Self Confidence

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• When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is sure except death and taxes," or "God willing and the creek don't rise," reminding each other that, notwithstanding the level of planning, we are continually dealing with being surprised. We get startled. We recover. We are disappointed. We adjust. Mostly-with Wisdom intact-we manage.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Wise, Wisdom, Levels

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.69, Ballantine Books

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• There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Flower, Home

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• I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Cities, San Francisco, World

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2001). “San Francisco Poems”, p.11, City Lights Books

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• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  Irving Howe

  Writing, Unity, Doe

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• I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

  Kitty Kelley

  Jobs, Years, Four

  "Smudging a Senator’s Legacy" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

  William Morris Hunt

  Blue, Eyelashes, Long

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

  David Riesman

  Children, Cities, People

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.263, Transaction Publishers

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• I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

  Asa Gray

  May, Extinction, Causes

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• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Men, Passivity Is

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• To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Home, Writing, Relatives And Friends

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.46, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Thinking, Want

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• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  Harold Rosenberg

  America, Stories, Metamorphosis

  "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 1473, October 30, 2003.

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• Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

  Karl E. Weick

  Mean, Winning, Issues

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• It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Contradictory, Hard

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• I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, People, Reform

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

  Gus Van Sant

  Might, Way, Overcoming

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2011.

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• The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

  Julian Baggini

  Atheist, Feel Better, Giving

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

  Alastair Campbell

  Crisis

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• It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

  Shirley Bassey

  Successful, Men, Resent You

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• As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

  Tammy Bruce

  Family And Friends, World, Might

  "On being out, proud and conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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