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Source: Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)

“As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.”

Made Form Artist Three Cities Sea Tough Organization Accepted Corporations Thrown Belonging Survived Three Times Ceremony Medieval Rite Traders Initiation Chimneys Norway Guilds

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want to get a solution which is acceptable to all. Discussions have come to the final leg, we hope for a positive result.”

Want Has Beens Results Principles Solutions Finals Legs Accepted Discussion Acceptable Exes Pension Positive Results Servicemen

Author:Narendra Modi

“What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels.”

People Thinking Knows Stills Ideas Knowing Paper Accepted Good Ideas Plates Curtains Underwear Towels Napkins Paper Towels

Author:Andy Warhol

“In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers but not against the United States.”

Self States Law United Cases United States Court Accepted Genocide Immune Nato Yugoslavia

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.”

Doe Done Violence Higher Civilization Horror Victim Accepted Invisible Defined Shock Hierarchy Unthinkable Unnoticed

Author:Derrick Jensen

“Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.”

People Way Feels Kind Stills Ideas Play Film Actors Fun Theater Accepted Film Actors

Author:John C. Reilly

“We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.”

People Way Two America Party Moral Principles Practice Democracy Capitalism Regard Accepted Moral Principles Federalism Two Party System

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.”

Seeing College Son Accepted Expensive Your Son

Author:Johnny Carson

“[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.”

World Strange Ordinary Accepted Familiarity Ordinary World

Book:Occasions: Selected Writings

Source: Occasions: Selected Writings

“We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.”

Way Long Fun Wife Accepted Peasants Huts Camelot

Book:The Selling of the President 1968

Source: The Selling of the President 1968

“Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?”

Hate Courses Parent Our Lives Accepted

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.”

People Want Ends Whole Wanted Common Boys Laughing Acceptance Dad Normal My Dad Accepted Whole Life Noses Wipe Peanuts Screwed Up Peanut Butter Good Boy

Author:Christopher Titus

“Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.”

Ifs May Art Said Government Certain Individual Influence Exercise Accepted Government Education

Author:Eleanor Antin

“Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.”

Wells Mean Age Brain Known Exercise Shapes Accepted Backgrounds Well Known Optimal Physical Exercise

Author:Naveen Jain

“I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out.”

Different Artist Guy Creative Streets Musician Ears Accepted Bunch New Orleans Parades Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Troy Andrews

“The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.”

Should Democracy Accepted Unemployment Slogans

Author:Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

“Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.”

May Scene Accepted Merit Representation Posterity Accuracy

Book:Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

Source: Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

“The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.”

World Trying Spiritual Alive Approach Aspect Photograph Wide Accepted Awe

Author:Abelardo Morell

“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.”

“While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.”

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Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.”

Way Years Littles Hard My Own Accepted Outcast Oddballs

Author:Dolly Parton

“The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.”

People Ifs Long Doe Matter Enough Facts Lying Difficulty Accepted Bolsheviks

Book:Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948

Source: Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948

“..Because when medical marijuana is fully accepted for what it is, we will see a phenomenon that makes Viagra's phenomenon seem limp.”

Seems Medical Accepted Phenomenon Marijuana Medical Marijuana Viagra

Author:Peter McWilliams

“I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.”

People Way Feelings Stars Pressure Accepted Who I Am

Author:Lady Gaga

“I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.”

People Knows World Said America Night Felt Talking Fans Fronts Honesty Tears Accepted Selling Every Night Inability Untrue Selling Out Sold Out Overjoyed

Author:Lady Gaga

“Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.”

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Author:Paolo Di Canio

“I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.”

Kind Accepted Songwriters Deities

Author:Neil Diamond

“The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.”

Done Facts Accepted Being True Spite Forgiven Too Good To Be True

Book:Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

“Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!”

Enough Taste Drug Drinking Crowds Alcohol Accepted Hated

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“I just do what I do and hope it's accepted by the public at large. It's different from when Marvin Gaye and Stevie revolutionized what music was 25 years ago. Now there's all this technology that's available to everyone. It's tough to be ahead of anyone.”

Years Different Technology Tough Years Ago Available Accepted Marvin

Author:Brian McKnight

“I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.”

Thinking Men Way Needs Trying Ideas Different Jesus Sin Pay Enemy Blood Demand Died Flesh Accepted Different Ways Questioning Vengeance Loving God Atonement God Image

Author:Jay Bakker

“I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.”

World Feels My Own Issues Comfortable Skins Worthy Accepted Empowered

Author:Art Alexakis

“The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily country music. I go to a lot of places in Canada and they go "I don't like country music" and they think I'm a country musician. When I am a country musician but not a country musician like they think of.”

Thinking Knows Mean Country Play America Musician Accepted Canada Do You Know

Author:Fred Eaglesmith

“It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.”

Whole Would Be Pain Concerned Accepted Bread Sweat Premises Short Life Life Span

Author:Stephanie Mills

“The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.”

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Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif

“There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted. We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.”

Ifs Children Long Different Parent Expected Accepted Immigrants Conform Diaspora

Author:Junot Diaz

“I dreamed of being very attracted to my future husband, and I'm extremely attracted to him. I dreamed of having lots of fun together and being able to be goofy and be accepted, that's all there.”

Able Together Fun Husband Accepted My Future Goofy Future Husband My Future Husband

Author:Rebecca St. James

“As long as you don't think he's just pretending not to mind for your sake, it sounds like he has truly accepted that blow jobs are too difficult and painful for you to perform, and he's still very satisfied with your sex life. Take him at his word.”

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Author:Mallory Ortberg

“I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.”

People Common Abuse Constant Accepted Brutal Heartbreaking

Author:Adam Duritz

“I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone would not solve anything, really. Reasoning is theoretical. Until you feel with your heart, you don't know if a thing is true. I found that book was absolutely authentic. I absolutely knew it was the truth. My whole heart accepted it.”

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Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Had He (Jesus) not offered Himself through the Holy Ghost, He would not be accepted in the eyes of God the Father. Nor would He have endured the sufferings of the cross. Had He not presented Himself through the Holy Ghost, His blood would not have remained pure and spotless. And let me add this: Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned.”

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Book:Good Morning, Holy Spirit

Source: Good Morning, Holy Spirit

“I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.”

Culture Rooms Accepting Involved Drug Accepted Locked Peers Drug Culture

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).”

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Author:Yoko Shimomura

“I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?”

Enough Accepted Honour Knighthood

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.”

Spirit Certain Language Areas Agree Accepted

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.”

Modern Civilization Accepted Modern Civilization

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.”

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Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.”

Musician Jazz Accepted Doctrine Composer Jazz Music Orthodoxy Jazz Musician Minimalist

Author:Anthony Davis

“My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.”

Trying Mistake Taxes Blame Accepted Pretending Cash Payment Biggest Mistake Life Mistakes Paying Taxes

Author:Brian Mulroney

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