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• Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

  Gene Brown

  Long, Advice, Grace

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• Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

  Kofi Annan

  Europe, People, Holocaust

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.120, Routledge

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• Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

  Todd Akin

  Determination, Government, Self

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• To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Eye, Reality, Views

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

  John Amos

  Writing, Ideas, Want

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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Maturity

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Liars, Lying

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• At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, Flag Burning, Flags

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• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

  Ransom Riggs

  Forever, Would Be, Half

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

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• Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Art, Broken, Imagination

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  Abraham Robinson

  Views, Ideas, Minorities

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• I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

  Stjepan Mesic

  Thinking, Europe, Croatia

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• Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

  Dan Rice

  Men, Saws, Coffins

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• So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".

  Kyongho

  Practice, Anxiety, Mind

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• Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Garden, Thinking, Evil

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but actually respect them for those beliefs? Because nothing less than that will do. It can’t. Simply tolerating someone who believes differently than we do isn’t enough. “Accepting” them isn’t enough. Having true and abiding peace with them means loving them. And that means respecting them. Because love without respect isn’t real love at all. It’s at best condescending patronization.

  John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

  Real, Believe, Mean

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• The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Ocean, Acceptance

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• Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

  Robert Genn

  Joy, May, Welcome

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• I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Character, Acceptance

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• There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

  Richard Schmid

  Risk, Mind, Painting

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• Both parties accept this vision. But we can reach it only if we move rapidly and in parallel on all fronts. The so-called 'sequential' approach has failed.

  Kofi Annan

  Party, Moving, Vision

  "Annan to Iraq: Let inspectors return". cnn.com. September 11, 2002.

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• Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Athlete

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• If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Knowing, Our World

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• The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Heart, Adventure, Joy

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• Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Hard Work, Democracy, Problem

  The New York Times, January 15, 1961; later quoted in Jacob Morton Braude "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" (p. 173), 1962.

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