"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing……" — Robert Frost
"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."
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Robert Frost
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385 Quotes by Robert Frost
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and…
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to…
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who…
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of…
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom…
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's…
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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