Accepting Quotes

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What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to… — David Remnick
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her… — Jeannette Rankin
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to… — Saint Augustine
The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to… — Pope Benedict XVI
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what… — Pope Benedict XVI
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways… — Pope Francis
Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really… — Henry Cloud
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties… — Barack Obama
The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But… — Al Gore
If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard… — Al Gore
The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous… — Raimond Gaita
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a… — John F. Kennedy
As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a sustainable economy and… — John F. Smith, Jr.
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret.… — Gabriel Ba
When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and… — Dean Koontz
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the… — George Bernard Shaw
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever… — Thurgood Marshall
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it… — George Washington

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