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• If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Done

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols or thought but as images of reality. A system acceptable to the mathematician because of its inner consistency may appear to the practical man to be full of contradictions because of the incomplete manner in which it represents reality.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Reality, Men, Consistency

  Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”

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• Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

  Jane Siberry

  Sleep, Pay, Hungry

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• Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Bells, Rings

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• My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

  Michael Rapaport

  Real, World, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

  Seth Godin

  Curiosity, Firsts, Facts

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• Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Progress, Arbitrary, Mediocrity

  Bruce Barnbaum (2017). “The Art of Photography, 2nd Edition: A Personal Approach to Artistic Expression”, p.165, Rocky Nook, Inc.

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• For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Winning

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• Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

  Osbert Lancaster

  Luck, Generations, Four

  Osbert Lancaster (1963). “All done from memory”, John Murray

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• Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

  Jodie Foster

  Might, Cruelty, Humans

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• Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, People, Progressive

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• The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Perspective, Political

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• The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.

  Warren E. Burger

  Prayer, Men, Views

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• The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Children, Long

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “The Sermon on the Mount”, p.56, Ravenio Books

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• A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sermons

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “The Book of Leviticus: Gospel Sermons”, p.252, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

  Vance Havner

  Responsibility, Duty, Available

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• What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

  Casey Affleck

  Thinking, People, Culture

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Silence, Black, Racist

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• The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.

  Christopher West

  Children, Mean, Technology

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• You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Successful, People

  "Zooey Deschanel: Actresses are too skinny, it's scary". www.foxnews.com. January 03, 2013.

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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Real, Successful, Animal

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• I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

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• The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.

  John Beddington

  Believe, Opportunity, Impact

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• When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.

  William Bateson

  Giving, Answers, Way

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• To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation [i.e., time, chance, and chemistry], how has it come into being? I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation.

  Henry Lipson

  Thinking, Theory Of Evolution, Mind

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