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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely… — Moliere
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be… — George Bernard Shaw
You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope. — Timothy Keller
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'. — Timothy Keller
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God… — Timothy Keller
Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church. — Michael L. Brown
Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. — Seneca the Younger
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform… — Andre Gide
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified. — Pope John XXIII
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of… — Simone de Beauvoir
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it… — William S. Burroughs
Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too… — Lewis Mumford
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. — Ugo Betti
My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that. — Joe Namath
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a… — Charles Peguy
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. — Gavin Newsom

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