Generally Accepted Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within…
— David Sarnoff
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It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When…
— Bill Moyers
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential…
— Arthur Schuster
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Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience…
— Norbert Elias
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I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the…
— Jimmy Carter
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It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is…
— George Soros
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In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one…
— Niki Lauda
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
— Jacky Ickx
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[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an…
— G. Edward Griffin
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If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
— Lawrence Summers
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What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
— Derek Freeman
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Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite…
— Aristotle
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There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
— Pope John Paul II
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
— Ferdinand Mount
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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported…
— Claude Bernard
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..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter…
— Linus Pauling
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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