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“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”

Ifs Philosophy Past Accepting History Our Lives Wind Universal Response Males Definitions Myth Bias Our Past Lenses Drifting

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”

People Truth Past Wish Accepting History Fantasy Elements Guides Spheres Nevertheless Representation Confusing

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.”

Men Life Doe Soul Accepting History Conditions Sells Rejection

Book:Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels

Source: Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels

“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”

Inspirational Accepting History Failure Difficulty Excuse No Excuses

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”

Source: The religious thought in Islam

“Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.”

Evil Accepting History Historical Wholeheartedly

Author:Albert Camus

“Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.”

Science Accepting Opinion History Information Position Acceptance Authority Available Discussion Experts Qualified Acquisition

Author:Frank P. Ramsey

“Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.”

“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”

Sides Leadership Acting Leader Accepting History Loneliness Coins Flipping A Coin

Book:Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines

Source: Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines

“I decline to accept the end of man.”

Men Art Ends Philosophy Accepting History Decline Aggravation

Author:William Faulkner

“Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.”