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• I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

  Jasper Fforde

  Garden, Six Months, Hackers

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

  Clive Barker

  Reality, Criminals, Alien Life

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 14, 2013

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• Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Struggle, Civilization

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• What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

  William Maxwell

  Memories, Lying, Emotional

  William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.28, Random House

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• I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Two, People

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• I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Pain, Gambling

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• I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

  Julia Sweeney

  Nice, Thinking, Scary

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• I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

  Donna Shalala

  Sex, Fun, Race

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• I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

  Will Self

  Phones, Texting, Neglect

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

  George Santayana

  Adversity, Men, Fire

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• I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Past, Negative

  "Making the Spirits Dance". nymag.com. June 5, 2011.

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• You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

  Fred Rogers

  Looks, Feels, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Observer, October 30, 1988.

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• The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

  Julian Baggini

  Teaching, Philosophical, Buddhism

  "Can a religion survive being stripped of its superstitions?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Sheep, Losing Control

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

  Joseph Heller

  Atrocities, Tomorrow, Week

  1988 Picture This, ch.37.

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• His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion.

  Julian Barnes

  Fashion, Cutting, Air

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Stupid, Ignorance, Media

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• I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fighting, Thinking, Care

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• I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Christian, Views, Vocabulary

  "Gay Marriage Divides Black Religious Leaders". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 15, 2009.

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• We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

  Francis Collins

  Kids, Giving, Enhancement

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. July 6, 2006.

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Ideas, Two

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• Drugs nearly killed my brother when he was a young man and I hate them. He fought back. And I'm really proud of him. But I learned something in going through that long nightmare with our family. And I can tell you, something has happened to some of our young people. They simply don't think these drugs are dangerous anymore. Or they think the risk is acceptable.

  William J. Clinton

  Brother, Hate, Men

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