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“Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.”

“The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.”

Facts Lying Internet Accepted Mechanism Fabulous

Author:Alex Gibney

“Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won.”

Giving Use Wanted Purpose Interest Historical West Accepted Hey Putin Ukraine Shouting Crimea

Author:Marvin Kalb

“My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.”

Wells Eye Parent Teacher Wife Self Esteem Reflection My Friends Mirrors Accepted Esteem Self Respect Exes Ex Wife

Book:Dallas Down

Source: Dallas Down

“The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.”

Ideas Acceptance Truth Is Tests Ultimate Trade Competition Accepted Freedom Of Speech Free Trade Supreme Court Justice

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.”

“Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.”

Has Beens America Wealth Amount Crisis Investment Accepted Enormous Elites Only Time 1930s Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:Susan George

“When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.”

Way Needs Helping Christian Used Term Lord Demand Majority Available Accepted Doctrine Obedience Protestants Evangelical Need Help

Author:John Howard

“As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.”

Ends Facts Desire Simple Disappointment Betrayal Accepted Companionship Only Love

Book:May We Borrow Your Husband?

Source: May We Borrow Your Husband?

“I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.”

Men Giving Littles Literature Effects He Man Offers Importance Relation Paid Corruption Accepted Inferiors Bribe

Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.”

Stories Dream Reality School Moving Desire House Community White Bigger Aids Accepted Hiv

Author:Ryan White

“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.”

Soul Spiritual Individual Groups Members Unique Conscience Accepted Abstract Civil Society Spiritual Beings Faceless

Author:Mark Levin

“While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.”

Life Feels Motivational Work Shame Accepted Participation

Author:Seth

“The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.”

“It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.”

Facts Crazy Normal Accepted

Author:William Goldman

“The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.”

Long Struggle Goes On Victory Long Time Accepted Long Time Ago

Author:Al Lewis

“I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time.”

Men War Age Dies Dark Practice Raised Medical Accepted Wounds Teeth Civil War Knives Boots Sole Drs Dark Ages Surgeons Muddy

Author:Paul Douglas

“...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off.”

Men Age Dark Results Cry Died Medical Accepted Old Man Articles Association Threatened Dark Ages Surgeons Infection Pennsylvania Chronicles Expulsion

Author:Paul Douglas

“This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.”

Ifs Way Firsts Has Beens Age Ten Accepted Biblical Commandments Hunters Bargains

Author:Earl Wilson

“Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.”

Quality Technology Risk Accepted Globes Proven Assurance Laboratory Implementing

Author:Richard Curtis

“When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.”

Years Facts Three Challenges Cities Steps Taken Team Pride Type Proud Deserve Years Ago Determination Accepted Intense Nba Three Years Championship Bulls Nba Championships

Author:Doug Collins

“By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.”

Hard America Community Virtue Tradition Accepted Traditional Traditional Family

Author:James H. Douglas

“I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.”

Made School Film Parent Too Much Accepted Scholarship Film School

Author:Ryan Murphy

“As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.”

Real Moving Used Class Risk Industry Comfort Comfortable Institutions Investment Accepted Core Assets Estates Spectrum Matured Moving Up

Author:Richard Price

“I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.”

Want Used Actors Mark Accepted Contribution

Author:Robert Altman

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”

“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. He saw the people with whom he dealt, his comrades, not as individuals but as receptacles for his ideas. On that basis, and no other, they were judged. He judged man not by their moral qualities but by their views, or rather the degree to which they accepted his.”

Source: Modern Times: A History of the World From the 1920s to the Year 2000

“Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.”

Looks Reason Eye Views History Particular Periods Very Good Definitions Critical Accepted Historian Episodes Skepticism Historic

Author:Paul Johnson

“Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.”

Made Facts Information Built Proof Accepted Conclusion Broads Assertion Pyramids

Book:Deception Point

Source: Deception Point

“The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.”

Stills Action Danger Taxes Authority Findings Solutions Accepted Pursue Despite Alternatives Reasonable Payment

Author:Lauryn Hill

“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.”

Years Long Has Beens Government Might Past Cases Issues Taken Five Building Projects Long Time Seven Average Accepted Approval Seven Years Funding

Author:I. M. Pei

“When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.”

Want Opportunity Difficult My Own Ego Projects Exciting Wings Historical Accepted Instance Museums Publication

Author:I. M. Pei

“I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be judged for what they are and analyzed, accepted, criticized, whatever you want to call it, on their own terms, not as part of some mall-cop genre.”

Thinking Knows Want Film Term Accepted Genre Filmmaker Judged Cop Malls

Author:Jody Hill

“If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze." And neither of these two "virtues" is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.”

Ifs Way Want Two Artist Force Virtue Intelligent Accepted Cunning Brutes Brute Force

Author:Francesco Clemente

“Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.”

Believe Persons Reality Used Found Rooms Hell Saws Nice Fronts Mirrors Connected Accepted Used To Be Hotel Peter Hotel Rooms Rakes Polaroids Old Picture

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.”

People Used Silence Shame Following Accepted Labels Routine Status Quo

Author:Margaret Cho

“One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.”

Desire Speak Known Tired Come Up Available Accepted Defined Regimes Attempting Framework Paradigm

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.”

Years Hard Kids Courses Black White Groups Hard Work Calling My Friends Accepted Hey Hated Mexican Vanilla

Author:Vanilla Ice

“I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.”

Roles Deeper Theatre Accepted

Author:Cate Blanchett

“In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Law Purpose Known Wise Divine Authority Importance Difficulty Accepted Remarkable Submit Evident Resorts

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.”

Accepting Principles Mathematics Accepted Physics

Author:Rene Descartes

“Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Father Jesus Born Records Teaching Prove Accepted Being True Prophet Divinity Virgins

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.”

May Reality Belief Essentials Roots Bases Accepted Genuine Quests Skepticism Inquiry Belief Systems Factual

Book:Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm

Source: Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm

“To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.”

Mind May Persons Ideas Facts Effort Accepting Conscious Accepted Analysis Rejects

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.”

Matter Causes Century Music Is Regard Accepted Champion Urges Twentieth Century Outrage Incomprehension

Book:The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990

Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.”

Ifs Doe Would Be Poor Rooms Wonder Understood Evidence Claims Accepted Abandon Soar Adequate Niche Ecological Sense Of Wonder Pseudoscience

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.”

Giving Moments Character Facts Values Turns Prayer Heard Available Accepted Disposition Interiors Our Prayers Fervor Lucidity

Author:Jacques Ellul

“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”

Mind Firsts Has Beens Different Reason Facts Century Honor Depression Suicide Deeds Accepted Insane Fighter Inevitable Honorable Inevitable Death

Author:Emilie Autumn

“On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.”

Kind Shows Pain Waiting Cry Bases Tired Accepted Day To Day Show Business Clown Tired Of Waiting Pain Inside

Author:Greg Giraldo

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