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• Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Departure, Littles, Way

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Profound, Healthy

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• Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Change, Business, Attitude

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• . . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Two, Justice

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• But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

  Hermann Hesse

  Growth, Mindfulness, Trials

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.493, Macmillan

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• Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

  Jay Chiat

  Technology, Opportunity, Numbers

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• We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

  David Platt

  Order, Desire, Assumption

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• When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Evil, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “To the Girls and Boys: Being the Delightful, Little-known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren”

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• The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.

  Laurence Sterne

  Responsibility, Goal, Effort

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• The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Party, Rocks

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• Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Mistake, Double Standard, World

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• Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.

  Philip K. Dick

  Matter, Way, Habit

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• In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Talking, Internet, Communicate

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• In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

  Georg Simmel

  Order, Mind, Events

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

  Larry Craig

  Soldier, Risk, Sailor

  "Enough is Enough" by Michael Rogers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

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• When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

  Lisa Randall

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Discover Magazine (Volume 27, No. 7) Interview, July 2006.

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• The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
  happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
  theater and empty circus and empty universe
  ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Zero, Vectors, Circus

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• Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Golf, Opportunity

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• Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Rome, Lows, All Things

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.213, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Intellectual, Amusement, Demand

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Rain, Men, Names

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• in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

  Shusha Guppy

  Family, Middle East, Doe

  Shusha Guppy (2004). “Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.38, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ben Affleck speech before the 2nd Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala, www.dailymail.co.uk. November, 2014.

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• Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

  Brian Eno

  Interesting, Listening, Attention

  "Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice". Book by Robert Fink, 2005.

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• It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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