Accepting Quotes

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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate — Doris Lessing
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."… — Umberto Eco
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets â€” most likely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you… — Tessa Dare
Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer. — Ellen DeGeneres
By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can… — Gena Showalter
We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clearâ€”and really just in the last few… — David Eagleman
I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I… — Andy Rooney
It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satanâ€™s Hearse and then finally heâ€™d just give up and say,… — John Green
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Donâ€™t wait… — Natalie Goldberg
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the… — Aberjhani
Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught… — Gary L. Francione
He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one… — Cecelia Ahern
And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is… — Portia de Rossi
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was… — Susan Cain
No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The… — Franz Kafka
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that… — R.K. Narayan
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it. — R.K. Narayan
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: Thatâ€™s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really… — Haruki Murakami
Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and… — Albert Payson Terhune

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