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• The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Miracle, Mind, Trying

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.34, Random House

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• Accept the present moment without judgement.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Attitude, Judgement, Moments

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• People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.

  Rajneesh

  Responsibility, People, Firsts

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• Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

  Harold Rosenberg

  Struggle, Self, Numbers

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• Children, we can grow spiritually only if we see the guru as the manifestation of God. We should not accept anyone as guru before we are fully convinced personally that he is authentic and truthful. Once we choose someone as guru, we should surrender completely to him. Only then will spiritual development be possible. Devotion to the guru means total surrender to him.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Jobs, Writing, Answers

  Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

  Walter Abish

  Truth, Brain, Unlikely

  Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions 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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• Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Effort, Servant Leadership, Sometimes

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.43, Paulist Press

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• We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

  Susie Orbach

  Emotional, Understanding, Way

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

  David Puttnam

  Country, Focus, Generations

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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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• There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

  Robert Powell

  Simple, Alive, Reason

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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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• I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

  Bob Brown

  Religious, Mean, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

  Jasmine Guy

  Kitchen, Important, May

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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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• As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Want, Attractive, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Men, Guy, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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