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• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Civilization, Modern, Modern Civilization

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• Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

  Edward Teller

  Addiction, Secrecy

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• In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

  Althea Gibson

  Sports, Hockey, Fields

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• I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

  Ethel Waters

  Stars, Ideas, Persons

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• Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

  Mischa Barton

  People, Stupid Celebrity, Dumbest Celebrity

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

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• Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

  Mischa Barton

  People, Problem, Messed Up

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• It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, People, Loner

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• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Doe, Matter, Celibacy

  "Celibacy and the Priesthood: An Interview with the Future Pope Benedict XVI". Interview with Peter Seewald, www.catholicculture.org.

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• Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

  Kim Cattrall

  Lying, Foundation, Deceit

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• It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Heaven, Atheism, Scripture

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

  Hypatia

  Women, Self, Religion

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• Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Lying, Acceptance

  1967 Speech at the Christian leadership conference, Atlanta, 16 Aug.

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• I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

  Jessica Savitch

  Peers, Literature, Serious

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

  Bill Shuster

  Veterans Day, Responsibility, Our Veterans

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• I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

  Peter Gallagher

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

  Paul Butterfield

  Thinking, Long, People

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• However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

  Helen Dunmore

  Entering, Magazines, Firsts

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• Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Practice, Choices, Activity

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• I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

  Larry Doby

  Opportunity, Situation, Involved

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• My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

  Lance Loud

  Quiet, Gayness, Loud

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• My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, My Family

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Ward McAllister

  Dinner Guests, House Guests, Sacred

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Marriage, Children, Merit

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