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“Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.”

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Author:Alan Watts

“The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.”

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Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.”

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Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

“It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.”

Men Wealth Acceptance Cleaving

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The essence of man is imperfection.”

Men Acceptance Essence Imperfection

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

“To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.”

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Author:R. A. Torrey

“The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

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Author:Stanley Baldwin

“What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.”

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Author:Sri Aurobindo

“If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”

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Book:Critical Studies

Source: Critical Studies

“When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.”

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Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.”

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Book:Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience

Source: Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience

“I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.”

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Author:Sebastian Junger