"I began feeling the way I imagine an……" — Barack Obama

"I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic."

— Barack Obama

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other… — Saint Augustine
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do… — Marcus Aurelius
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,… — Teresa of Avila
I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more… — Amy Adams
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself… — Antonio Banderas
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. — Tyra Banks
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained… — William Barclay
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a… — Henry Adams

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