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• Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, World, Form

  "Gold is again proving its value in a risky world" by George Trefgarne, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2002.

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• People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Errors, Long, People

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• No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Mistake, Good Friend

  "Making the Right Choices". Speech at the General conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.

  Elton Gallegly

  Real, Boards, Flight

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• It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Expression, Law

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• The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.

  Louise Hay

  Children, People, Want

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• You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

  Neal Boortz

  Ideas, Race, Judging

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• It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

  Rob Bell

  Acceptance, Achieve, Accomplish

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.151, Harper Collins

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• I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Thinking, Squares

  "Art as a Continuum. Nancy Spero". ART21 Interview, art21.org.

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• The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

  Ntozake Shange

  Pain, Kindness, Confused

  Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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• I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Spring, School

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• Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Names, World

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• I'd like to think that I'd helped people all over the world to question the things they otherwise would have accepted as the truth. I'd also like to think that I'd charmed them a bit with my lovely vocal stylings and the baring of my lovely arse.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Lovely

  "Manson Gets Paranoid". "Kerrang!" Interview with Ian Winwood, March 23, 2002.

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• Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

  Charles Ives

  Beautiful, Confused, Lying

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.125, 1st World Publishing

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• It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

  Fred Hoyle

  Fun, Self, Ironic

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• People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.

  Paul Davies

  Order, Law, People

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• Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Healing, Recovery, Years

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• Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Order, Secret, Masonic

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• Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.

  Harry Markopolos

  Jobs, Home, Government

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• Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

  Marina Warner

  Heart, Simple, Creating

  Marina Warner (2013). “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism”, p.249, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fighting, Ideas, Expression

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• The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Divine Guidance, Voice, Ego

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• We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate.  In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

  Jacque Fresco

  Ego, Problem, Debate

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• Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

  Abebe Bikila

  Men, Victory, Tragedy

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

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