"The difficult part of good temper consists in……" — William Empson

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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… — Mark Twain
• Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful… — Jean Piaget
• The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with… — Ernst Haeckel
• Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the… — William Merritt Chase
• The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact… — George Washington
• I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call… — Salvador Minuchin
• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
• Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will… — Samuel Johnson
• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both… — 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:… — Gretel Ehrlich

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