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• You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

  H. G. Wells

  School, Ideas, Two

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Grief, Looks, Pace

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.334, St. Martin's Press

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• Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Lying, Hero, Years

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.

  Anne Bishop

  Heart, Opportunity, Hands

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• They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Personality, Important, Individual

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• Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

  George Packer

  War, Party, Independent

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• When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.

  Mario Puzo

  Lying, Dark, Eyelashes

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• No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

  Isak Dinesen

  Animal, People, Silence

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

  William Golding

  Sweet, Morning, Air

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.75, Penguin

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• Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.

  Baroness Orczy

  Mean, Sacrifice, Hands

  Baroness Orczy (2011). “The First Sir Percy”, p.76, House of Stratus

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• I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.

  Suzanne Collins

  Struggle, Mean, Journey

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Jobs, Wings, Trying

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

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• The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.31, Penguin

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• As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!

  Gayle Forman

  Cities, Paris, People

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• The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Envy, Insult, Masters

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• Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

  Helen Fielding

  Girl, Should Have, Geisha

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.

  Gary Chapman

  Love You, Expression, Decision

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.47, Moody Publishers

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• The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Caring, Stupidity

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

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• I wanted him. I arched my back, fully aware of how vulnerable that made me and that I was giving him an invitation. He accepted it and laid me back against the table, bringing his body down on top of mine. That crushing kiss of his moved from my mouth to the nape of my neck. He pushed down the edge of my dress and the bra strap underneath, exposing my shoulder and giving his lips more skin to conquer.

  Richelle Mead

  Crush, Kissing, Giving

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.185, Penguin

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• Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Past, Ideas

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.235, Hachette UK

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• Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

  David Mitchell

  Victory, Ordinary, Tyranny

  "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

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• If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Classic, Irritating, Realising

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.515, Vintage

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• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Names, Dumb

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you." - Bride

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Love You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.2590, Macmillan

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