Accepting Quotes - Page 39

• I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.

  Joe Biden

  Matter, Judgment, Inappropriate

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. September 7, 2008.

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• I've never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Morning, Jobs

  Interview with Dean Stattmann, deanstattmann.wordpress.com. June 12, 2011.

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• You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Reality, Exciting

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Ideas, Firsts

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!

  David Wilkerson

  Doe, Worship, Boring

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• It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.

  David Cronenberg

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stars, Believe, Heart

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• I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Past, Conditioning

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 28, 2011

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• I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth.
  Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth.
  It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play.
  Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

  Lauryn Hill

  Confused, Struggle, Games

  Song: EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING Album 'The Miseducation Of Lau, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief systems. Accepting this fact seems to be one of the most empowering things one can do.

  David Wolfe

  Thinking, Views, Empowering

  David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.51, North Atlantic Books

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• Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. Why does he kill these 22 people? If they say, What difference does it make? I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.

  Powers Boothe

  Jobs, Character, Differences

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• You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

  Ambrose Bierce

  Years, Leeches, Reptiles

  "The Shadow on The Dial and Other Essays". Book by Ambrose Bierce, www.pub22.net. 1909.

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• The White House announced that it has rejected several petitions to legalize marijuana. They say it has nothing to do with politics. It's just that they can't accept a petition that was written on a crumpled up Funyuns bag.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, White, House

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• I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

  Lily Cole

  Looks, Way, Unusual

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

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• Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Long, Evil, Oppression

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.

  Uzo Aduba

  Mother, Fate, College

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• I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

  Suresh Raina

  Class, Actors, Able

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• Better to accept whatever happens.

  Horace

  Whatever Happens, Happens

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• There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

  Tacitus

  Integrity, Favors, Virtue

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• The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Country, Children

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• A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mean, Acceptance, Escaping

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• All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

  Honore de Balzac

  Idols, Noble, Want

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• In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Bed, Family Life

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• Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Demand, Way, Authority

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• Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Struggle, Thinking, Class

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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