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• If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

  Charles Stanley

  Average, Effort, Excellent

  Charles Stanley (2011). “How to Reach Your Full Potential for God: Never Settle for Less than His Best”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

  Julien Torma

  Games, Sacrilege

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• Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Philosophy, Personality, Mind

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• The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Real, Sacrifice

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1997). “Bulletin”

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• I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, Tactics

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• [I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine....On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can also say without hesitation, that the quality of healthcare in this county is second to none - and sacrificing quality to achieve these necessary reforms is not acceptable. A single payer, government run healthcare system is the worst possible way to achieve this goal.

  Glenn Thompson

  Running, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• While the Christian message is increasingly becoming less acceptable in fashionable society, we must be always living according to Scripture and prepared to be apologists for Jesus Christ in all aspects of our lives.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Christian, Jesus, Scripture

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• I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.

  Merrill Markoe

  Thinking, Empathy, Way

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• People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

  Robyn Lawley

  Opportunity, Curves, People

  FaceBook post by Robyn Lawley from Nov 29, 2013

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• Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.

  Paul Goldberger

  Children, Museums, Design

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• Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

  Jacque Fresco

  Would Be, Today, Offensive

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• Love is a mighty power,
  a great and complete good.
  Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
  It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
  all bitterness sweet and acceptable.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Good Love, Love Is

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• In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.

  David Easton

  Animal, Thinking, Air

  David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Queens, Thinking, Government

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• What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

  Stanley Kauffmann

  Memories, Past, Narrative

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• Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Animal Rights, Whatever It Takes

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• A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of backs back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding 'law and order' rather than 'segregation forever'.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Order, Law

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• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Writing, Kind, Found

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• We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sports, Thinking, Agents

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• It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

  Twiggy

  Responsibility, Suffering, Fur

  "Twiggy slams designers for using 'intolerably cruel' fur in London Fashion Week collections". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 24, 2010.

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• Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what's acceptable on the Left

  Dennis Prager

  Given, Matthew, Left

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• I
  would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young
  girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some
  people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being
  created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those
  magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.

  Penelope Cruz

  Girl, Teenage, People

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• I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Worry, Want, Today

  "Being Nicholas". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. November 1, 1995.

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• If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creativity, Alertness, Turns

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.167, Penguin

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• We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

  Dalai Lama

  Philosophy, Needs, Ethics

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