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• It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

  Kesha

  People, Torture

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• Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Powerful, Successful, Men

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.26, Knopf

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• Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

  John Flanagan

  Unorthodox

  John Flanagan (2011). “The Siege of Macindaw (Ranger's Apprentice Book 6)”, p.307, Random House

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• Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Believe, People

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• I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

  John Scalzi

  Risk, Insane

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• I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.

  Tori Spelling

  Positive, Daughter, Role Models

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• The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

  Plutarch

  God, Gratitude, Heart

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• Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Sight, Spirituality, Accepting

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

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• Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.

  John Stott

  Intelligent, Names, Impossible

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• Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Worship

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Liberty, Scripture

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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• A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Heart, Remembrance

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• No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sacrifice, Men, Giving

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• A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.

  Ross Garnaut

  Change, Humanity, Risk

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• Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.

  Russell D. Moore

  Wall, Believe, Government

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• Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fighting, Done, Alive

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• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "Walking on Thin Ice: A Career-Spanning Conversation With Yoko Ono". Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, www.spin.com. November 06, 2013.

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• On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

  Bil Keane

  Looks, Magazines, Television

  "'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies", www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

  Kim Kardashian

  Mistake, People, Drink

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  Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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• I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

  Rashida Jones

  Dirty, Kids, Naughty

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• It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Perfect, May, Normal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

  Cheryl Hines

  Fun, Lying, Eye

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Assuming

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• I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

  Andrew Greeley

  Thinking, Example, Kind

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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