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• I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Letters, Originality

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• Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Reality, Poetry

  Germaine Greer (1995). “Slip-shod sibyls: recognition, rejection and the woman poet”, Viking Pr

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• Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Writing, Long, Poetry

  Stephen Dobyns (2011). “Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

  Theodore Zeldin

  People, Together, Doe

  "Foibles..." by Sandra Deeble, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2001.

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• (Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Involved

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• There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Impact, Asteroids, Policy

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• Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.

  John Welwood

  Determination, Dark, Compassion

  John Welwood (1991). “JOURNEY HEART PB”, Harper Perennial

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• A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

  Isaac

  Ideas, Poor, Wells

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• By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Exercise, People

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• The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Fashion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.86, Stanford University Press

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• Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?

  Emma Goldman

  Thinking, Circles, Two

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• I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Play, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Our World, Suffering

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think British humour is very cruel, and gay humour is very cruel. I think the two go hand-in-hand and that's why they mix so well in England. I think that's why you get so many gay comedians in England that are accepted so well because British humour is very cruel. I love it.

  Jason Sellards

  Gay, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

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• There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Truth, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drunk, Poetry, Personality

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• Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

  Gloria Steinem

  Rebel, Female, Doe

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

  Emma Goldman

  Slavery, Moral, Thorough

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.109, 谷月社

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• For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.

  Rebecca West

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Evil, Trying

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• What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.

  Harold Bloom

  Writing, Thinking, Views

  Harold Bloom (2003). “A Map of Misreading”, p.31, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Reality, Facts, Impossible

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “The collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: pragmatism and pragmaticism”

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• Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.

  William Barrett

  Men, Hands, Greek

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• With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.

  Crystal Eastman

  School, Home, Motherhood

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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