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“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.”

Men World Believe Wells Two Different Might Lying Force Sides Differences Accepting Morality Jew Mortals Misfortunes Despise Tolerate Primal Enmity Two Worlds Gentiles Two Lives

Author:Maurice Samuel

“Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.”

Thinking Wells Accepting Middle Changed Bottom Size Turning 50

Author:Carol Vorderman

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“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

“Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.”

Wells Two Facts Able Accepting Security Solitude Constant Instinct Seeking Horrible Two Things Communion Grasping

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.”

“Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.”

Men Wells Accepting Saws Coffins Dead Man

Author:Dan Rice

“At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.”

Men Believe Wells Doe Able Turns Accepting Don't Believe Monsters Horrible Horrible Things

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.”

Men World Wells Facts Joy Evil Found Opportunity Pleasure Accepting Ready Offers Endless Unlimited Ugliness Endless Opportunities

Book:Love

Source: Love

“But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with reality and be ready to accept the fact that leadership , at times, can bring out the worst in us. And understanding, as well as coming to grips with the darker side of your personality, is key to dealing with real-life situations.”

Wells Persons Real Matter Facts Reality Motivational Understanding Sides Deals Situation Accepting Worst Ready Keys Personality Real Life Darker Side

Author:Donald T. Phillips

“Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.”

Ifs Knows Men World Wells Long Powerful Accepting Weapons Conscience Deserve Ashamed Nonviolence Defeated Oppressors

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The kind of gratitude that receives even tribulations with thanksgiving requires a broken heart and a contrite spirit, humility to accept that which we cannot change, willingness to turn everything over to the Lord -even when we do not understand, thankfulness for hidden opportunities yet to be revealed. Then comes a sense of peace. “When was the last time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?”

Wells Heart Kind Doe Lasts Spirit Turns Opportunity Accepting Lord Humility Broken Gratitude Adversity Trials Knees Willingness Last Time Thankfulness Tribulation

Author:Bonnie D. Parkin

“Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.”

Wells Ends Feelings Able Accepting Roles Teach Seeing Mankind Position Duty Mirrors Including Believer Prophet Socialist Contradictory Brows Heretic Frivolous Orators Dodge Sceptic Gadflies

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.”

People World Wells Kind Certain Accepting Policy Concepts Rejects Foreign Policy Elitism

Author:George W. Bush

“I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.”

Knows Needs Wells Enough Jobs Asks Speak Voice Accepting Creativity Silent Over You Leaving Me Need You Me Alone Love And Respect I Need You Leave Me Alone Never Leave Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”

Humans Wells Two Character Might Human Beings Accepting Class Mankind Offers Negative Instinct Active Significant Host Guests Passive Hospitality

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.”

People Thinking Trying Years Wells Happens Age Fall Accepting Nice Gains Trade Aging Old Age Falling Apart Mellow

Author:Woody Allen

“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.”

Needs Giving Feels Humans Wells Accepting Marriage Expression Equal Ideals Instinct Intellect Partners Setting Settings Human Relations Human Relationships Happy Marriage

Book:The Integrity of the Personality

Source: The Integrity of the Personality

“You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.”

Ifs Wells Different Play Shows Form Stars Accepting Rocks Creating Draws Stones Bother Rock N Roll Unfortunate Rolling Fertile Rolling Stones Hybrid Zeppelins Discs Fertile Ground

Author:David Lee Roth

“I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".”

People Ifs Knows Giving Wells Said Asks Accepting Needed Yeah Organs

Author:Larry Hagman

“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

“I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.”

World Wells Made School Given Accepting Description Prisoner Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.”

Wells Accepting Atheism Argument Mere Positive Atheism Denied

Book:Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds

Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds

“Well there are tough decisions necessary in budgets. I agree there are tough decisions necessary to ensure the long-term health of the budget. What I don't accept and will never accept is that those decisions must be unfair as a matter of course.”

Wells Long Matter Courses Term Decision Accepting Tough Agree Budgets Long Term Unfair Tough Decisions

Author:Chris Bowen

“I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas.”

“We've got some fundamental choices to make about the kind of country we want to be. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well, or are we going to build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead?”

Want Wells Kind Country Hard Choices Chance Accepting Economy Hard Work Fundamentals Get Ahead

Author:Barack Obama

“I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.”

Wells Two Mother Father Accepting Taught Praying Models Valuable Two Things Realising Instruction

Author:Patti Smith

“There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams.”

People Knows Trying Firsts Wells Art I Can Dream Actors Silence Accepting Musician Critics Passionate Do The Best Can't Change Judgmental

Author:Jared Leto

“Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.”

Wells Challenges Accepting Source Research Available Checks

Author:Richard Brown

“Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.”

Wells May Has Beens Done Government Form House Speak Results Accepting Doubt Position Regard No Doubt Rejects Resolution Documents Treaties Proceeding Propriety Quebec

Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee

“If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.”

“Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.”

Wells Has Beens Ideas Culture Strong Race Accepting Emotional Safe Chinese Singapore Swamps Other Cultures Safe Places Accepting Others Strong Emotional

Author:Nicolas Berggruen

“As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.”

Wells Littles Made Self Might Kids Used Accepting Player Mines Habit Conscious I Realized Used To Be Height Tennis Self Conscious Bad Habits Tennis Player

Author:John Isner

“The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.”

Ifs Writing Wells Different Able Accepting Female Males Premises

Author:Greg Rucka

“The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.”

Thinking Years Wells Whole Lasts Guy Accepting Vision Roles Sacrifice Groups Willing Keys Couple Seasons Pushing Willingness Championship Nba Championships

Author:Steve Kerr

“Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance.”

“We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.”

“I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.”

People Thinking Needs Wells Young Games Accepting Steps Growing Up Grace Growing Lessons Criticism Skins Athlete Handle Nfl Layers Applause Ups & Downs Every Step Young Athletes Steps In Life

Author:Dan Marino

“Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.”

Wells Children Pain Joy Parent Accepting

Author:Fred Rogers

“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”

“It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.”

Wells Mean Important Responsibility Accepting Messages Taking Responsibility Social Interaction

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.”

“The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree.”

Wells Mean States Law Lying Accepting Agree Disagree Policemen National Guard

Book:The Letters of John F. Kennedy

Source: The Letters of John F. Kennedy

“Highly competitive athletes like Ginny Gilder have a gift for tolerating pain and ignoring adversity. They accept these things as the price they pay for greatness. These habits of mind and body serve us well in many aspects of our lives, but not in all aspects of our lives. Course Correction is about taking time to heal and exploring the joy that lies beyond adversity.”

“No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.”

Wells Life Is Asks Accepting Expectations Expect Nothing

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.”

Ifs Wells Important Today Names Women Can Do Accepting Flying Aviation Awards Cake Behalf Bakers

Author:Amelia Earhart

“As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'”

Way Want Wells Dies Culture Accepting Youth Comfortable Mortality Wanting To Die Other Cultures

Author:Alan Ball

“Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.”

Thinking Way Trying Wells I Can Seems Term Deals Accepting Willing Circumstances Easier My Way Thrown Accepting Things

Author:Matt Dillon

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