"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance." — Roy Hattersley

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do… — Marcus Aurelius
• Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
• And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
• The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. — Josh Billings
• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of… — Jacqueline Bisset
• 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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