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• I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Silence, Judgment

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.342, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

  Vaclav Havel

  Failure, Responsibility, Behinds

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy". "The Christian Century" Magazine, April 11, 1990.

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• Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

  Vaclav Havel

  Writing, Responsibility, Principles

  "PEN International saddened by death of Václav Havel". December 19, 2011.

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• Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

  Mark Hopkins

  Free Gifts, Way, Salvation

  Mark Hopkins (1837). “Sermons”

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• A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

  Anthony Storr

  Marriage, Expression, Giving

  Anthony Storr (1961). “The Integrity of the Personality”

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• I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

  Francois Duvalier

  People, Revolutionary, Disregard

  "Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers". Book by Elizabeth Abbott (p. 103), 1988.

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• Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Keys, Doors

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Moving, Mean

  Howard Zinn (2009). “Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Depressing, Art, Games

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Apology

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.

  Alan Lightman

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  "Our Lonely Home in Nature". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Light, Validation, Finals

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

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• Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Mind, Doe

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  Edward Heath

  Believe, Shadow, Cabinets

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• People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.

  Gillian Anderson

  Lying, Government, People

  "The Voice of Reason Speaks on FOX's 'X-Files'". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 02, 1994.

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• If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .

  James Callaghan

  Order, Community, Answers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "David Lee Roth: Outrageous or normal?". Patrick McDonald, The Advertiser, October 13, 1988.

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• Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Opposites

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.45, Northwestern University Press

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• I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

  Ron Reagan

  Atheist, People, Would Be

  "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions For Ronald P. Reagan; The Son Also Rises" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, People, Healthy

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Deception, Use, Crafts

  "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

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• Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

  Jean Chretien

  Years, Careers, Ruins

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.150, Vintage Canada

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• And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.

  Katie Couric

  Perfect, Road Less Traveled, Successful Business

  Katie Couric's Commencement Address at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2007.

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• Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

  John Collison

  Stripes, Banking, Credit

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• The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Successful, Keys, Want

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