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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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• So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

  Robert Sternberg

  Children, Example, Disability

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• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Two Extremes, Imbalance, Causes

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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, Civilization

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Differences

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.24, Fulcrum Publishing

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• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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• Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Art, Growing, Process

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

  Robert Barron

  Intellectual, Culture, Resistance

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Real, Believe

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• How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Men, Slender

  Charles Brockden Brown (2012). “Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Religious, Reality, Spurgeon

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• The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Home, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 16: 1870”, Lulu.com

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• Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Vanity, People, Deception

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.190, Macmillan

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• I crave fit disposition for my wife;
  Due reference of place, and exhibition;
  With such accommodation, and besort,
  As levels with her breeding.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Exhibitions, Levels

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.241

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• It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

  Allan Bloom

  America, Catholic, Soul

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.

  Haile Selassie

  Iran, Long, Events

  "Revolutionary Ethiopia : From Empire to People's Republi" by Edmond J. Keller, Indiana University Press, (p. 67), 1991.

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• Every week I'll be spending money on flights, accommodation, stringing and even things as simple as taxis, meals out and, of course, paying the other members of my team. I'm still very careful, though, with what I'm spending.

  Andy Murray

  Team, Simple, Meals

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.

  D. A. Carson

  Self, People, May

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• I was influenced at an early age by Gandhi, and I have read many biographies of him. I have been greatly influenced in the last twenty years by Mandela. It is amazing that he has managed to keep such a balance, that he came out of prison after such a long time as a rounded, holistic person who could reach difficult accommodations with generosity.

  Mary Robinson

  Years, Long, Generosity

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of consciousness, and ways of understanding the world that promote accommodation, quietism and passivity.

  Henry Giroux

  Hard Work, Vocabulary, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.

  Jean Piaget

  Dream, Baby, Hands

  "The First Year of Life of the Child". Book by Jean Piaget, "The Egocentrism of the Child and the Solipsism of the Baby", translated by Howard E. Gruber and J. Jacques Vonèche, 1927.

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• As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .

  William A. Dembski

  Design, Evolution, Ill

  "What Every Theologian Should Know about Creation, Evolution, and Design" by William A. Dembski, www.arn.org. 1996.

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• A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.

  John Bolton

  Strong, Jobs, Believe

  Source: humanevents.com

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