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• The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

  Murong Xuecun

  Viewpoints, Speak, Truth Is

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• The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

  Barack Obama

  Denial, Delay, Global Warming

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• The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Mean, Soul

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• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Law, Citizens

  "‘Ender’s Game’: To deflate boycott, Lionsgate shuns Orson Scott Card" by John Horn, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.

  Bernice Sandler

  Hurt, Sex, Practice

  "Discrimination Against Women: Congressional Hearings on Equal Rights in Education and Employment". Book editing by Catharine R. Stimpson, R. R. Bowker, 1973.

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• NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Thought Provoking, Political, Trying

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• The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

  Martha Stewart

  Family, Live Life, Passion

  "Martha Stewart on Perseverance", www.achievement.org.

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• We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Use

  Mohamed ElBaradei (2011). “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, p.172, Macmillan

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• Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Magic, Special

  "Let JK Rowling's magic dispel prejudice about her 'proper adult novel'" by Maureen Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Thinking, Hunting

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• I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

  Meg Whitman

  Teacher, Children, Kids

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, White, Black

  "A Declaration of Independence" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

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• If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born that way. We don’t choose it. So shouldn’t it be acceptable, excuse - this is according to the way the left thinks about things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Racism, Doe

  "An Update on Barry’s Hut Brother". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 15, 2009.

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, Squash, People

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• Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

  Hisham Matar

  Born

  "Naima" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Arson, Causes

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• We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

  Jerry Falwell

  Sex, Alternatives, Benefits

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• I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.

  Holland Roden

  Hair, Looks, Brushes

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• Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Offering, Waste

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• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, College, Men

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• Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

  Donald A. Norman

  Long, Simplicity, Want

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• It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

  Neelie Kroes

  Player, Pay The Price, Order

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• It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

  William Penn

  Sacrifice, Fire, Coal

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

  Laura Mvula

  Dad, Cocky, Thinking

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