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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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• 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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• Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Math, Men

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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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• This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.

  Don Paterson

  Reading, Heal Itself, Practice

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

  Frank Gaffney

  Expression, Rights, Office

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• Paul Ryan and his allies, who include Mike Pence, are congressional conservative Republicans, they have a very clear conservative agenda. The question will be who has to bend more to accommodate the other - Mr. Trump accommodate their ideology, or will they have to accommodate his? And if he can rally audiences behind him, we could see a very interesting intra-party war of a kind we haven't seen in a really long time.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  War, Party, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

  Terry Eagleton

  Civilization, Diversity, Achievement

  "The liberal supremacists" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?

  Salman Rushdie

  Strong, Two, Giving

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2012.

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• In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Important, Atlas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Two, California, Texas

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• I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Cameras, Actors

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.

  Justus von Liebig

  Wise, Science, Want

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• And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

  George Saunders

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "George Saunders and Andy Ward". www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Temptation, Faithful, Degrees

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• Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Different

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• I'm the kind of person that as long as you respect me and don't distract me before the game, then I'll respect you in return and accommodate you after the game. Sometimes the situation dictates that I talk, but everybody should understand I'm not going to talk every day, whether we're in first place or last place.

  Albert Belle

  Games, Long, Lasts

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• God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Father, Hands

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• It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

  H. G. Wells

  Russia, Government, Order

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