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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Resignation
Natalie Clifford Barney

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
Rejection
Charles Baudelaire

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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Politeness
Ambrose Bierce

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Erma Bombeck

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Change
Nathaniel Branden

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You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Husbands
Charlotte Bronte

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I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Maturity
Peggy Cahn

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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
Injustice
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Persuasion
Marcus T. Cicero

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Poetry and Poets
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Ideas
David H Comins

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Writers and Writing
E. L. Doctorow

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Action
Peter F. Drucker

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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
Enlightenment
Wayne Dyer

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Past
T. S. Eliot

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
War
T. S. Eliot

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Accept your genius and say what you think.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Belief
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
Dependence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Applause
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
Gratitude
William Faulkner

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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Acceptance
Brendan Francis

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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Dictators and Dictatorship
Mahatma Gandhi

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The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
Capitalism
Edward Heath

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Responsibility
Napoleon Hill

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun