Accepting Quotes - Page 16

• I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

  Stanley Milgram

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

  Andy Murray

  Play, Perfect, Tennis

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

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• I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

  Angela Davis

  Hard Times, Justice, Diversity

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• The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

  Eddie McGuire

  Culture, Mediocrity, Defeat

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• It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

  George R. R. Martin

  New York, Book, Years

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• It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Real, Perfectly Natural

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• A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it ... I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don’t see why I shouldn’t.

  Dusty Springfield

  Girl, Boys, People

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• It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

  Nico

  Father, Champion, Needs

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• I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

  Dean Ornish

  Cards, Answers, Medical

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• Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Hate, Thinking, Sight

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• Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want… You will discover compensatory blessings when you willingly accept the will of the Lord and exercise faith in Him.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Want

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• I testify that when the Lord closes one important door in your life, He shows His continuing love and compassion by opening many other compensating doors through your exercise of faith. He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way....They point the way to greater happiness, more understanding, and strengthen your determination to accept and be obedient to His will.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Determination, Exercise

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• Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Expression, People

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• SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

  Salle Merrill Redfield

  Ordinary, Willing, Ordinary Life

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• My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Writing, Differences, People

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• If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

  Orrin Woodward

  Excuse, Accepted, Ifs

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

  Jon Postel

  Principles, Conservative, Implementation

  "The Robustness Principle". RFC 793, "Transmission Control Protocol", entire text of section 2.10, www.ietf.org. September 1981.

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• Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

  Wally Lamb

  Smart, Differences, Enough

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• Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

  Francis Collins

  Intelligent, Design, Natural

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• I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

  Mariano Rivera

  Thinking, Defeat

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• No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Punishment, People

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.411, Open Court Publishing

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• When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

  Matthew Parris

  War, Exercise, White

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• I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.

  Marisa Berenson

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

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• I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.

  Selena

  People, Important, Appearance

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