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A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit… — Vicki Davis
When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly… — Roger Delano Hinkins
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with… — Alfred M. Rehwinkel
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many… — Vitit Muntarbhorn
The Bibleâ€™s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bibleâ€™s purpose is to show you how Godâ€™s… — Timothy Keller
Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life.Â He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough… — Scot McKnight
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right… — Eula Biss
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not… — Seneca the Younger
It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free. — Vinoba Bhave
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a… — Peter Gallagher
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. — Marya Mannes
Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted. — Ronald Reagan
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has… — Joseph Campbell
The terrorist attacks on September the 11th were a turning point for our nation. We saw the goals of a determined enemy: to expand the… — George W. Bush
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act.… — Jim Costa
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons,… — Andrew Solomon
... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited. — Shirley Brice Heath
SanitisedÂ violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence. — Stanley Kubrick
Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from… — Rene Descartes
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;… — Charles Darwin

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