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• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

  Loretta Young

  Growing Up, Discipline, Facts

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• There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Acceptance, Past

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• I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Thinking, Trying, Disease

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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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, Acceptance

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

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• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Positive, Law Of Attraction

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• You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wind, Agents, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Abandon, Improving

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• I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

  Liv Ullmann

  Choices, Missing, Goes On

  Liv Ullmann, Robert Emmet Long (2006). “Liv Ullmann: Interviews”, p.136, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Acceptance, People

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• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

  Carl Jung

  Change, Acceptance, Thoughtful

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• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Change, Acceptance, Second Chance

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

  Natalie Portman

  Real, School, Thinking

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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

  Acceptance, Problem, Homeless

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• Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

  Sarah Silverman

  Black And White, Feelings, Would Be

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

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• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  Zoe Saldana

  Birthday, Age, Skins

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

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• It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

  Jose Saramago

  People, Election, Referendums

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• To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Book, Eye

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Receiving, Saving

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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, Acceptance, Evil

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

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  Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beauty, Beautiful, Makeup

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• Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

  Liam Neeson

  Quests, Kinsey

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