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And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it… — George Whitefield
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth… — Juan Williams
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But… — Robert Winston
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are… — Muhammad Yunus
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always… — will.i.am
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of… — Julian Baggini
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by… — Michael Eric Dyson
We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we… — Ashley Jensen
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways… — Evgeny Morozov
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of… — Stephen King
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. — Rabindranath Tagore
A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of… — Doris Lessing
He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson… — Tom Perrotta
Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in… — Dorothy Parker
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this… — Carolyn Heilbrun
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once… — Mary Higgins Clark
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth,… — M. Scott Peck
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their… — C.S. Lewis
You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies. — Dennis Lehane

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