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Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed… — Peter Drucker
The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average… — Margaret Mead
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience… — Paul Tillich
Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest. — Willard Scott
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away… — Steven Pinker
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to… — Carl Sagan
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions… — William James
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. — Mark Twain
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. — Agatha Christie
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch… — Khalil Gibran
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it… — John Ruskin
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of… — Tony Benn
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact… — Henri Bergson
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith,… — Leo Tolstoy
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing,… — Robert B. Parker
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we have the words… — Francis Schaeffer
You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga… — Donna Karan
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself. — Abraham Maslow

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