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“It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.”

War Individual Community Accepting Danger Glory Understood Opponents Acquire Ardor

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.”

Knows Giving Problem Political Term Accepting Moral Issues Trouble Giving Up Understood Not Giving Up Autonomy Ethos Practicality Do Not Give Up History Making

Book:C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

Source: C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

“Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.”

Accepting Understood Prejudice Being True

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Littles Earth Wish Causes Accepting Atheism Son Hero Understood Regard Blind Ass My Son Monkeys Propositions Deaf Antithesis Baboons Foals

Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

“Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.”

Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.”

Men Littles Reality Accepting Understood Dignity Remains Threat Privilege Myth Radical Exposure Pretense Nemesis

Book:A life in our times: memoirs

Source: A life in our times: memoirs

“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Facts Form Used Understanding Accepting Knowing Understood Accounts Assuming Familiar Used To Be Analysis Thoughtful Deceiving Pros And Cons

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?”

Doe Accepting Hell Information Communication Offers Understood Strive Painful Refusal

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.”

Said Self Force Results Accepting Meditation Buddhism Understood Discovery Concerned Green Self Discovery Dylan Meditating Fuse Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Book Use Black White Accepting Understood Likes Phrases Ruling

Book:Symbolic Logic: Elementary

Source: Symbolic Logic: Elementary

“Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.”

Facts Today Known Accepting Land Civilization Elements Understood Tradition Threat West London Historian Rome Crowns Egypt Cradle Suppression Idiom

Author:Michael Tsarion

“To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.”

People Way Needs Trying Different Use Used Games Speak Language Accepting Understood Errors Aliens Distinction Inconsistency Different Languages

Author:Richard Carrier

“People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.”

People Want Loss Levels Deals Accepting Losing Understood

Author:Vince Young