Quotes with accept

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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bret Harte Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
    Captain Jims Friend.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Ferdinand E. Marcos Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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  • Kathleen Norris Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
    Kathleen Norris
    American poet and author (born 1947) (1947 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Aaron C. Brown Monotheism introduced the idea that we should passively accept whatever fate God dealt. Gambling seemed to be a refusal to do that.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Beth Brooke My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Maya Angelou My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Beth Ditto My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • Bob Beauprez Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Harvey Fierstein Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
    Harvey Fierstein
    American actor, writer and singer (1954 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
    The Weight of Glory
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Brendan Francis Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Bode Miller One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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