Accommodation Quotes

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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. — Mark Twain
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its… — Jean Piaget
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the… — Ernst Haeckel
Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other… — William Merritt Chase
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was… — George Washington
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the… — Salvador Minuchin
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener… — Samuel Johnson
Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For… — Harry S. Truman
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to… — Gretel Ehrlich
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community — Ruth Benedict
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in… — Charles Spurgeon
After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter… — Tony Benn
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the… — Francis Schaeffer
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. — Charles Brockden Brown
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. — Jalal Talabani
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations. — J. William Fulbright
Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the… — Dan Millman

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