Accepted Quotes
1348 quotes by 1122 authors
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
— Malcolm X
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Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
— Ayn Rand
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It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must…
— Ayn Rand
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Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves…
— Sidney Jourard
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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so…
— Stephen Sondheim
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When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty…
— J. B. Priestley
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The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is…
— Thorstein Veblen
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A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
— Heinrich Böll
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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
— Edward Weston
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Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can…
— Clement Greenberg
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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…
— Keith Miller
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Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially…
— Savitri Devi
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I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.
— Paul Giamatti
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Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal,…
— David Milne
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After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better…
— Gabriel Macht
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For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object…
— Kazimir Malevich
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I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I…
— Ricki-Lee Coulter
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