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• Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Moon, Technology

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• Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Clothes, Wool, Looks

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Support, Outcomes, Gains

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Hymns, Funeral

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

  George Eliot

  Stupidity, Social, Unendurable

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.579, Collector's Library

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• Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

  Ezra Klein

  Gun, Mass Shootings, Talking

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• The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

  Jeff Cooper

  Choices, Savages, Answers

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• Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

  Harlan Ellison

  Perfection, Excellence, Waking

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• Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

  Ted Rall

  Race, Life Is, Take Time

  Ted Rall (2001). “Search and Destroy: Cartoons”, p.107, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

  Martin Rees

  Believe, Technology, People

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• In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Body Types, Different, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  Barry Goldwater

  Betrayal, War, Hypocrisy

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• If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

  Tim Walberg

  School, United States, Boards

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• There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Past, Analysis, Honest

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• You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Self, Risk, Degrees

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• And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Home, School

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• I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

  Stephen King

  Fun, People, Scare

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse - to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Writing, Southern Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.

  Mike Leigh

  Character, Judging People, Interesting

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Jobs, Awareness, Inequality

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• Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Thinking, Choices, Our Society

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• I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, Ideas, Challenges

  Interview with Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Love, Heart, Simple

  Mary Baker Eddy (2002). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Tired, Mean, Broken

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• The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser. That's not what it's all about. It's to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Party, Giving, Political

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