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“While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.”

May Nations Accepting Generations Overcoming Folks Grounded Nurturing

Author:Trent Lott

“I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.”

Thinking Believe Heart Jesus Answers Accepting Tests Childlike Loving Jesus

Author:Donald Miller

“I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.”

Men Jobs Evil Accepting Reader Battle Lucky Expectations Pressure Coal Relentless Stressful Deadline Mining Necessary Evil

Author:Grant Morrison

“France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.”

Thinking World Culture Left Accepting France Farmers Primitive Cowboy Dominating

Author:Adam Michnik

“I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.”

People Accepting Realist

Author:Aretha Franklin

“I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.”

People Needs Use Body Accepting Absolutes Dresses Makeup Cellulite

Author:Holly Madison

“The black church will accept anybody.”

Black Church Accepting Black Church

Author:James McBride

“I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.”

Men Humans Persons Belief Views Powerful Accepting Subjects Authority Behavior Capacity Ideals Dignity Command Rejects Conception Providing Affirmation Laboratory Human Dignity

Author:Stanley Milgram

“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.”

Accepting Intellectual Inability Alienation Mystic Handicaps

Book:The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.”

Sometimes Play Happens Perfect Accepting Tennis

Author:Andy Murray

“I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.”

Hard Justice Accepting Diversity Strategy Corporate Hard Times Synonym

Author:Angela Davis

“The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.”

Culture Accepting Defeat Mediocrity Accept Me

Author:Eddie McGuire

“It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.”

Years Wells May Two Book Accepting New York Ready Like You Rejection Interviews Thrown Two Years New York Times Champagne

Author:George R. R. Martin

“It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.”

Feels Should Real Problem Sex Natural Accepting Limitation Rejects Real Questions Indignant Perfectly Natural

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it ... I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don’t see why I shouldn’t.”

People Knows Way Feels Bigs Girl Accepting Boys Heard Capable Bent

Author:Dusty Springfield

“It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.”

Needs Father Accepting Burden Champion

Author:Nico

“Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.”

Ifs Accepting Fire Equal Uncomfortable Deep Down

Book:The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

Source: The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

“I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.”

Knows Answers Accepting Approach Scientist Medical Cards Quackery

Author:Dean Ornish

“Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.”

People Thinking Firsts Looks Hate Walks Accepting Television Sight Newspapers Variety Loathe

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want… You will discover compensatory blessings when you willingly accept the will of the Lord and exercise faith in Him.”

Want Accepting Lord Exercise Blessing

Author:Richard G. Scott

“I testify that when the Lord closes one important door in your life, He shows His continuing love and compassion by opening many other compensating doors through your exercise of faith. He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way....They point the way to greater happiness, more understanding, and strengthen your determination to accept and be obedient to His will.”

Way Important Shows Spiritual Understanding Compassion Accepting Lord Path Greater Doors Exercise Determination Opening Sunlight Continuing Obedient Love And Compassion

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.”

Men Light Law Purpose Christ Loss Powerful Accepting Taken Grace Serious Holy Weapons Gains Guilt Conviction Conversion Perceive Sinner Most Powerful Deprived Likelihood Powerful Weapons

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Until you recognize the need, the absolute requirement for taking responsibility, you will not succeed. Once you do accept the responsibility, however, the Egoscue Method never fails. Never. No drugs, no surgery, no machines, no miracles. Just You. A normal person, doing normal things.”

Needs Persons Responsibility Accepting Failing Drug Succeed Normal Machines Miracle Absolutes Method Surgery Requirements Taking Responsibility Normal Things

Book:The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion: Revolutionary Program of Stretching and

Source: The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion: Revolutionary Program of Stretching and

“Dear God, please help me to love and value myself, and treat myself with loving care. Please help me to know that I deserve happiness (as we all do), and that I have the right to change my life in healthful ways. Thank you for supporting me as I stand in my power, strength, and love in my relationships and in my career, and for helping others to accept and support the changes that I need to make.”

“Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.”

Happens Christian Jesus Nations Differences Accepting Models Committed Heritage Observers Christian Heritage

Author:Philip Yancey

“Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.”

People Needs Jesus Secret Accepting Expression Blindness Healed Lecturing

Author:Philip Yancey

“SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.”

Accepting Willing Ordinary Ordinary Life

Author:Salle Merrill Redfield

“My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.”

People Writing Looks I Can Differences Accepting Complexes Photograph Limitation Look Up Framework Dictionary

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.”

Ifs Accepting Excuse Accepted

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is.”

Men Art Matter Strong Accepting Prove Mad Defeat Gentle Jiu Jitsu Small Man

Author:Saulo Ribeiro

“TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.”

Accepting Principles Conservative Implementation

Author:Jon Postel

“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”

Want Needs Happens Remember Accepting Happenings Who You Are Despite Bad Things I Want You Remember Who You Are

Book:Hopeless

Source: Hopeless

“Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference”

Knows Enough Differences Accepting Smart Being Smart

Author:Wally Lamb

“Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.”

Natural Accepting Design Bases Intelligent Complexes Selection Natural Selection Intelligent Design

Author:Francis Collins

“I don't think any professional accepts defeat.”

Thinking Accepting Defeat

Author:Mariano Rivera

“No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?”

People World Country Accepting Punishment Tolerate Palestine

Book:Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor

Source: Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

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Author:Aristotle

“When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.”

War Care Young White Accepting Week Exercise Comfort Training Tasks Pet Strokes Brushes Rabbits Initiation Parachutes Brush Strokes

Author:Matthew Parris

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

Sometimes Reality Pain Bits Enjoy Pleasure Accepting Pieces Illusion Investing Complaints Collide

Book:Reflections on War and Death

Source: Reflections on War and Death

“I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.”

Thinking Eye Beautiful Young Accepting Through The Eyes

Author:Marisa Berenson

“Woman must not accept; she must challenge.”

Source: Woman and the New Race

“I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.”

People Important Accepting Figures Important Things Appearance Accept Me Physical Appearance

Author:Selena

“If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.”

Ifs Two Natural Accepting Gay Normal Folks Denied Love Each Other

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.”

Knows Accepting Advice Know Yourself Better Than You

Author:Sonia Friedman

“Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.”

Men Use Problem School Accepting College High School Sat Grades

Author:John Katzman

“Actors were the first people to accept me.”

People Firsts Actors Accepting Accept Me

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.”

Ifs Way Giving Results Accepting Ready Shots Competition My Way Outcomes Best Shot

Author:Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

“If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.”

Ifs Voice Accepting Female Attraction Miserable Interviews Possessed Unlimited Faded Basements Damp Potency Conveying

Author:Gilbert Harding

“Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.”

Accepting Divine Pride Transport

Author:Elizabeth Barton

“I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Different Use Term Accepting Style Involved Band Following Brands Different Peoples

Author:Geoff Downes

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