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• It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Law, Principles

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• I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

  Jacques Derrida

  Thinking, Traps

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.115, Stanford University Press

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  It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

  Jeff Cooper

  Family, Gun, Police

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• To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Silence, Poetic, Flattering

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  Adam Clayton

  Loyalty, Jobs, Work

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

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• I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

  Todd Barry

  Thanksgiving, Chickens, Chicken Nuggets

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• I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

  Nikki Giovanni

  I Like You, People, Way

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• I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, People, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.305, New Directions Publishing

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• If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

  Patrick White

  Imagination, Truth Is, Ifs

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• Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, Mind Blowing, Culture

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• We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Self Worth, Firsts

  "A Declaration of Independence". Malcolm X's Statement at the Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City, New York, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

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• Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

  Audre Lorde

  Skills, Circles, Differences

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• The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Successful, Men, Practice

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• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

  Lisa See

  Mother, Suicide, Children

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• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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• The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

  Stanley Kubrick

  Ignorance, Ideas, People

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• Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Senior, College, Differences

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.81, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

  Steve Martin

  Three, Delicacy, Obsession

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• I do have some leftover chicken and pasta. (Grace) And wine?...That’s acceptable (Julian) Look, buster, I’m not your cooking wench. Mess with me and I’ll feed you Alpo. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wine, Grace, Cooking

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• Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Angel, Thinking, Average

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• if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

  Randy Pausch

  Party, Arrogant, Third Parties

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Will you be quiet?" he asked, smiling down at her. She nodded. He pretended to think about it. "I don't believe you/" She planted her hands on her hips, which had to be a ludicrous postition, naked as she was from the waist up. All right," he acceded, "but the only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.' He lifted his finger. What about 'More, Gareth?'" He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable

  Julia Quinn

  Believe, Thinking, Hands

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• Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Children, Believe, Men

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing

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• The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

  Guy Debord

  Stories, Terrorism, States

  Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.24, Verso

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