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“Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.”

Want Needs Home Three Technology Return Moon Length Coming Home Chemicals Acceptable Mars Obsolete Propulsion

Author:Gene Cernan

“Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.”

Ifs Feels Form Opinion Shapes Abuse Acceptable Commonplace

Book:Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir

Source: Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir

“I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.”

Thinking Firsts Two Ideas Three Easy Answers Millions Red Dollars Hips Restaurants Barriers Acceptable Tape Chef Jumping Truck Million Dollars Fast Food Red Tape Food Trucks

Author:Tyler Florence

“Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.”

Break Virtue Shining Temptation Opposition Remove Acceptable Break Through

Book:British Theatre: Caractacus

Source: British Theatre: Caractacus

“Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.”

Culture Mistake Failing Honest Acceptable Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.”

Hard Fishes Smoking Chocolate Acceptable Baths

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.”

Thinking Want Feels Repeats Funeral Acceptable Hymns

Book:A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?”

Social Stupidity Mortals Acceptable Unendurable Social Bonds

Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.”

Talking Violence Late Mass Gun Tragedy Shooting Mourning Too Late Strings Acceptable Discussing Aftermath Gun Violence Mass Shootings

Author:Ezra Klein

“There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.”

Past Honest Analysis Acceptable

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.”

Ifs Want States School United United States Ought Praying Towns Meetings Congress Boards Halls Acceptable School Board Board Meetings

Author:Tim Walberg

“I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.”

“In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.”

Looks Different Body Type Acceptable Body Types

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.”

People World Believe Political Technology Support Solutions Standards Concerned Billions Acceptable Technological Optimist Pessimist Standards Of Living

Author:Martin Rees

“Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.”

Life Is Race Mortals Acceptable Take Time

Book:Search and Destroy: Cartoons

Source: Search and Destroy: Cartoons

“The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.”

Ifs May Choices Answers Violence Tough Threat Response Acceptable Savages Right Answers Tough Choices

Author:Jeff Cooper

“The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.”

Writing Acceptable

Book:Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

Source: Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

“I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.”

People Thinking Want Kind United Support Missing Band Tired Sticks All Kinds Priests Categories Metals Acceptable I'm Tired Maidens Venom Slayer Death Metal Breaking Things

Author:Chuck Schuldiner

“I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.”

Thinking Made America Violence Ordinary Acceptable Violence Against Women

Author:Eve Ensler

“Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.”

Matter Voice Honesty Acceptable

Author:Steve Aylett

“Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once”

Seems Enemy Circumstances Range Acceptable Biting Ninja

Author:Steve Aylett

“Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.”

Important Culture Names Sin Building Tvs Pride Ego Program Corners Magazines Articles Acceptable Gratification Evangelical

Author:Richard J. Foster

“The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.”

People Has Beens Made Care Order Virtue Humour Laughter British Odd Damn Acceptable

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.”

People Ifs Knows Play Games Know How Streets Building Essentials Acceptable Unbearable

Book:The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante Boxed Set

Source: The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante Boxed Set

“I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber”

Ifs Thinking Stills Enough Easy Difficult Moral Crime Planets Drug Weak Addiction Alcohol Ruins Substance Controlled Acceptable Unfortunate Addict Stigma Fiber Alcohol Addiction Moral Fiber

Author:Brian Molko

“Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.”

Trying I Can Use Seems Faces Situation Couple Russia Acceptable Poland Dave Gayness

Author:Elton John

“People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.”

People Should Seems Eye Burden Heavy Acceptable Threshold Public Eye Appropriateness

Author:Hillary Clinton

“To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.”

Ifs Fire Pride Library Critical Fats Motive Acceptable Apology Visitors Admiring

Book:The Rest of My Life

Source: The Rest of My Life

“Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.”

Life May War Found Heaven Prayer Our Lives Sacrifice Praying Sight Acceptable

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.”

Knows Life Real Wisdom Reality Happens America Ability Levels Secret Knowledge Power Acceptance Communication Mass Communicate Unconscious Acceptable Mass Communication

Book:The Essential Ginsberg

Source: The Essential Ginsberg

“Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.”

Believe Difficult Gains Rough Acceptable Brilliance Eloquence Refinement Oratory

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.”

Inspirational Ideas Inspiration Sleep Morning Amount Bed Approach Following Acceptable Metaphysical Awakened Urgency

Author:Fannie Hurst

“Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.”

Clear Absence Acceptable No Hope

Author:Virgilia Peterson

“During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.”

“Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?... It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left.”

“Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?”

Christian Religious Acceptable Offensive Homosexual Murderer Creeps

Book:Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values

Source: Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values

“Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.”

Christian Political Sports Religious Acceptable

Book:Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

Source: Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

“And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved.”

Way Want Giving Children Important Self Home School Values Parent Acceptable Handmade

Author:Fred Rogers

“Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.”

War Circumstances Extremes Surrender Alternatives Acceptable Strike Back Empire Strikes Back

Author:Leigh Brackett

“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.”

Children Character Problem Understanding Communication Development Discipline Behavior Acceptable Problem Solving Emphasis Child Development

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“The gospel is saying that, what man cannot do in order to be accepted with God, this God Himself has done for us in the person of Jesus Christ. To be acceptable to God we must present to God a life of perfect and unceasing obedience to his will. The gospel declares that Jesus has done this for us. For God to be righteous he must deal with our sin. This also he has done for us in Jesus. The holy law of God was lived out perfectly for us by Christ, and its penalty was paid perfectly for us by Christ. The living and dying of Christ for us, and this alone is the basis of our acceptance with God”

Men Persons Done Law Order Jesus Christ Sin Perfect Deals Dying Acceptance Holy Jesus Christ Bases Paid Accepted Obedience Acceptable Righteous Penalties

Author:Graeme Goldsworthy

“A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.”

Character Past Pieces Chess Ignorant Supposed To Be Acceptable Unsure Chess Pieces

Book:Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays

Source: Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays

“Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.”

Form Acceptance Assuming Tolerance Permit Acceptable Intolerance Superiority Boast Egotism

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.”

Long Motivational Today Strong Term Company Industry Return Employment Long Term Acceptable Shareholders

Author:Lakshmi

“The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.”

Real Lying Understanding Growth Marriage Essence Partners Acceptable

Author:Wallis Simpson

“The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.”

Said Book Presses University Refuse Professors Acceptable Publish Referee

Book:Littlewood's Miscellany

Source: Littlewood's Miscellany

“Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.”

Ifs Please Acceptable Flattery

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

“What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.”

Ifs Men Doe Reason Issues Prepared Devotion Motive Poison Purity What If Acceptable Offering Providence Discharge Incense Worshippers Draught

Author:Seneca the Younger

“It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.”

Book Wife Smoke Acceptable Cigar

Author:Anton Chekhov

“We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.”

Needs May Children Remember Asks Voice Silence Teach Conditions Solitude Our Children Acceptable Positively Voice Of God

Author:Maya Angelou

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