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“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.”

“Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.”

Way Mind Doe Faith Belief Speak Easy Accepted Senses Touched

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. So I will close with another confession. Frequently, along the tortuous road of recent months from this chamber to the Presidents House, I protested that I was my own man. Now I realize that I was wrong. I am your man, for it was your carefully weighed confirmation that changed my occupation. The truth is I am the peoples man, for you acted in their name, and I accepted and began my new and solemn trust with a promise to serve all the people and do the best that I can for America.”

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.”

Ifs Jesus Christ Christianity Office Jesus Christ Boxes Accepted Followers Cult Box Office

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to be criticized in rational terms. (Bohr's complementarity cannot be so criticized, I fear; it can only be accepted or denounced - perhaps as being ad hoc, or as being irrational, or as being hopelessly vague.)”

Science Term Views Clear Difficulty Point Of View Accepted Rational Ease Ads Irrational Definite Vague Mechanic Intuitive Quantum Mechanics

Book:Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.”

Years Two Done Jobs America Teach Teacher Math Accepted Two Years Math Teacher

Author:Chris Baio

“When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.”

Ifs Knows Self Guy White Quiet Embrace Scared Hip Hop Rap Accepted Hips Hops Rapper Insecure Suburbs White Guys

Author:Charlie Day

“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Different Beautiful Film Actors Sound Industry Aging Accepted Forty Prime Beautiful Things Film Industry

Author:Michiel Huisman

“To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.”

“Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.”

Children Mother Wise Offers Accepted Fortunate Shocking Flirting Maidens Papa

Book:The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.”

Can Do Models Complexes Notion Accepted Atmosphere Rough Approximation Complex Systems

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.”

People Greatness Accepted Guarding Being Accepted

Author:Mike Tyson

“I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”

Self States Law Order Violence Citizens Prove Western Defense Accepted Unwilling Self Defense Ku Klux Klan

Author:Robert F. Williams

“There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.”

Men Two Use Force Emotion Principles Movement Fit Integrity Intellectual Tools Agree Accepted Discussion Operations Minimum Good Will Renaissance Cognition Axioms Initiate Physical Force

Author:Ayn Rand

“The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.”

Stills Reality Difficult Views Accepting Saws Judging Scientist Catholic Accepted Circles Traditional Establishment Surprising Orthodoxy Solar System

Author:Michael Coren

“The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.”

Men World Doe Ends Whole Christ Existence Wonderful Mystery Difficulty Accepted Whole World Explanation Grants Rejected Enigma

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.”

Certain Economic Accepted

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting.”

People World Needs Accepting Accepted Hardest Desperate Hardest Thing

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.”

Knows Want Feels Accepted Underdog

Author:Charlie Day

“In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.”

Ideas Earth Study Spread Accepted Mars Prospects Plausible Traction

Author:Paul Davies

“I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.”

Want Different Lasts Mines Particular Albums Accepted

Author:Nas

“I’m washed, I’m forgiven, I’m whole, and I’m healed. I’m cleansed and I’m glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth. I am but a pilgrim on this planet, on my way to perfection, and I don’t need anybody to tell me who I am, because I know who I am. I am a child of the King, a son (or daughter) of God, born again through Jesus Christ, bought with the price of His blood. I am a new creation, totally new, thoroughly loved and completely accepted as a child of my Father, precious in His sight.”

“Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.”

Christianity Accepted

Author:Timothy Keller

“This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.”

Men Stills Military Profession Accepted

Author:Lawrence Korb

“As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.”

Way Actors Games Audience Plans Accepted My Way Game Plan

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.”

Force Technology Effects Capitalism Democratic Strive Contrary Accepted Opposition Brighter Carrier Brighter Future

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.”

Ifs Real Matter Earth Saws Movement Planets Accepted Senses Trustworthy Copernicus

Book:Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

“Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.”

People Mind Facts Pain Form Father Grows Opinion Boys Growing Up Youth Son Capacity Mere Accepted Phrases Substitutes Incapable No Pain

Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

“The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.”

“If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.”

Ifs Firsts Objects Limits Accepted Exploration Futurism

Author:Frank Herbert

“After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.”

People Years War Spirit Horror Six Defeat Accepted Desperate Spain Exile Repression Transcendent Horror Of War

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.”

Years Firsts Made Would Be Felt Style Design Building First Time Decades Architecture Accepted Orthodoxy Revolt Stirring Postmodernism Motifs

Author:Martin Filler

“There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

“Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.”

Littles Seems Christian Father Born Boys Psychology Son Fruit Accepted Dogma Little Boys

Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.”

Ifs Want Firsts Children Conditions Accepted Kingdoms Just One Kingdom Of God

Author:John Ruskin

“Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.”

Lying Magic Accepted Interpretation Imagery

Author:Robert Bridges

“In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.”

“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.”

Reality Seems Certain Values Felt Religious Conditions Stage Divine Limits Perfection Bounds Accepted Festivals Novelty Convenience Eccentric Predecessors Profane Melodrama Irresponsibility

Author:Laura Riding

“Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.”

Men Should Has Beens Done Interesting Written Subjects Talent Example Accepted Chosen Spite Setups Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.”

Humans Facts Emotion Emotional Painting Expression Source Satisfaction Accepted Psychological Human Relations Human Relationships Fulfilment

Author:Mervyn Levy

“I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.”

Moving Goal Havens Accepted

Author:Donny Robinson

“If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Able Christianity Share Scripts Believer Accepted Reputation Developing Serving Emphasis Non Believer Developing Relationships

Author:Andy Stanley

“I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.”

Want I Can Sometimes Huge Burden Accepted

Author:Bernhard Schlink

“It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted.”

Ifs Giving Kind May Has Beens Two Matter Found Community Safe Medicine Accepted Alternatives Treatment Conventional Tested Alternative Medicine

Author:Marcia Angell

“I have finally accepted that there are consequences to every action. I earned them and they are rightfully mine. There is no time to make bad decisions. Every step is precious. The definition of living is mine.”

Action Decision Steps Mines Consequence Definitions Accepted Every Step Bad Decision

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.”

Looks Different Whole Facts Lasts Moral Dangerous Judgment Accounts Foundation Deny Accepted Versions Aliens Explanation Opponents Assurance Sap Moral Judgment

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”

Humans Reason Lying Social Behavior Elements Ethics Capacity Roots Response Patterns Accepted Ancestor Mammals

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.”

Life Made Bigs Mistake Civilization Accepted Equations Randomness Big Mistake

Book:The Stone Gods

Source: The Stone Gods

“The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.”

Art Film House Audience Accepted Realistic Sections Entertainers

Author:Arjun Rampal

“The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.”

People Christian Christ Wise Teaching Accepted Chinese Dove Serpent Christian Teaching

Author:Lin Yutang

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