Accepting Quotes - Page 35

• Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

  William Allen White

  Moving, Order, World

  "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.

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• While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

  Russell Baker

  Men, People, Life Is

  "So This Is Depravity and Other Observations". Book by Russell Baker, 1980.

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• I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Doubt, Needs, Belief

  "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 306, 1976.

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• For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.

  Barbra Streisand

  Spiritual, Believe, Wings

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• Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Daughter, Women

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• To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Prayer, Release, Walk With Me

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• When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. That those who advocate any extension of freedom choose to go no further than suits their own special purpose is no reason why freedom itself should be distrusted.

  Henry George

  Special, Purpose, Abnormal

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Spiritual, Psychics, Knowing

  "Atom and Archetype" edited by Carl Alfred Meier, translated by David Roscoe, 1992.

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• I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Silence, Judgment

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.342, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

  Vaclav Havel

  Failure, Responsibility, Behinds

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy". "The Christian Century" Magazine, April 11, 1990.

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• Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

  Mark Hopkins

  Free Gifts, Way, Salvation

  Mark Hopkins (1837). “Sermons”

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• A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

  Anthony Storr

  Marriage, Expression, Giving

  Anthony Storr (1961). “The Integrity of the Personality”

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• Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Keys, Doors

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Moving, Mean

  Howard Zinn (2009). “Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Mind, Doe

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  Edward Heath

  Believe, Shadow, Cabinets

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• If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .

  James Callaghan

  Order, Community, Answers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "David Lee Roth: Outrageous or normal?". Patrick McDonald, The Advertiser, October 13, 1988.

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• I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

  Ron Reagan

  Atheist, People, Would Be

  "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions For Ronald P. Reagan; The Son Also Rises" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, People, Healthy

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

  Jean Chretien

  Years, Careers, Ruins

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.150, Vintage Canada

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• And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.

  Katie Couric

  Perfect, Road Less Traveled, Successful Business

  Katie Couric's Commencement Address at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2007.

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• People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or production, are facts, we must worship them as facts, and we must try to adapt ourselves to them. This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat, which are only expressions of the great modern divinity, the Moloch of fact.

  Jacques Ellul

  Heart, Thinking, Race

  "The Presence of the Kingdom" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Olive Wyon, Seabury paperback, (p. 37), 1967.

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• By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith . Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic .

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Afterlife, Facts, Would Be

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “The Magic Labyrinth”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.

  Ben Gibbard

  Fun, Darkness, Age

  "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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