Accommodations Quotes

• All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Matter, Facts

  "America Abroad". content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Travel, Journey

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• So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

  Robert Sternberg

  Children, Example, Disability

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• Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

  Jean Piaget

  Acquisition, Assimilation, Materials

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.353, Routledge

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• Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Writing, Bags

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

  Jalal Talabani

  Love, Peace, Doors

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• The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

  Ruth Benedict

  Community, Patterns, Firsts

  Patterns of Culture ch. 1 (1934)

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• So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

  Chris Patten

  People, Principles, Courses

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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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• The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Reality, Doe, Discrimination

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Two Extremes, Imbalance, Causes

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• I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

  Stockard Channing

  Technology, Thinking, People

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

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• I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

  Edvard Munch

  Should Have, Rooms, Fund

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• To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heaven, Enjoy, Pleasant

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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• Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Law Courts, Justice

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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so

  Lord Chesterfield

  Distance, Night, Fool

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.162

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• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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• We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, Civilization

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are staying in basic accommodation but it doesn't matter to me, it's all about the experience.

  Eamon

  Matter, Staying

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• We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation.

  Michael H. Moskow

  Feels

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• Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Mean, Equality

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.225, Hoover Press

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• If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.

  Jean Piaget

  Dream, Baby, Hands

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

  Peter Kreeft

  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybe—if I go ahead and finish it anyway—I can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.

  Joan Didion

  Hate, Book, Color

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