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Acceptance Quotes
"Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present."
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"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
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"What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?"
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"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
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"Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No."
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"If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life."
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"It was my letting go that gave me a better hold."
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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
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"I cannot hate gay men, I cannot hate homosexuality. At the lowest points in my life, when all else abandoned me, my gay men friends were my sisters, aunts, mothers who lifted me up on their shoulders and reminded me that there is light at the end of the tunnel. If I were to hate gay men, or to condemn them just because they're gay, I would be a hypocrite. I simply cannot turn my back on arms that held me in my darkest hours."
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"And I know that I'm not perfect,But this path feels perfect."
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"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."
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"You have to surrender yourself to the experience."
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"It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance."
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"There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."
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"If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy."
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"You're going to have more rejection than acceptance."
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"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did."
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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."
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"Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks."
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"God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, 'Do this and don't do that'- should not be there. Circumstances are a 'scientific circumstantial evidence' ['Vyavasthit']. You should 'settle them with equanimity'."
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"In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion."
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"The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."
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"Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is."
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"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."
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"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance."
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"The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again."
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"One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh)."
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"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it."
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"The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss."
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"It's not about describing someone as that's typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person."
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"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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"Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance."
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"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."
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"Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy."
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"What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance."
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"The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one's) say, 'Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then do those sensual intents and if you have celibate intents towards Me, do celibate intents and if you get religious intents, do religious intents; if you get reverence-intents, do reverence intents and if you want to curse, then curse me. I confront [challenge] no one. A person that doesn't confront goes to Moksha and the person who confronts, resides here [worldly life bondage]."
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"The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been."
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"Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you."
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"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
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"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."
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"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."
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"I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good"."
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"We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking."
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"Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation."
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"Sometimes people feel they need to control everything, as if they could! Matters of life and death are out of your hands. The more you come to realize this, the harder you try to prove that you can control SOMETHING, anything. All you can really control is your response to what happens. You cannot control matters of life or death and because of this you are not accountable. You cannot be held liable for anything that you have no power over. Guilt, shame and blame make no sense when circumstances are beyond your control."
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"This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away."
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"I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was best at." "Hmm. I see," Kumi said. She pondered this. "But that might very well be the best way to live your life."
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"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
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"No need to feel shame for what you are."
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