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Accepting Quote by Guy Debord

“Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.” quote by Guy Debord — Download Open image

“Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.”

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.…

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This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

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Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

Stephen Colbert

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It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine…

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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

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