Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted."
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Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
Johnny Carson
Television Host
"Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college."
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"Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?"
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"A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it."
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"You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope."
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"If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else."
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"Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted."
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"Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'"
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"What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?"
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"We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules."
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"Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it."
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"Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground."
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"Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident."
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"As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery."
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"The lesson that I would hope everyone would learn quite early in their career is don't take it personally. Whatever it is that happens, you're accepted for a role or rejected for a role of whatever, don't take it personally. It's part of the business and the person that is either hiring or firing-that's their business. That's what they are there for and it has nothing to do with how you feel about ... It has to do with someone else's perception of should you do this particular part, so just don't take it personally,. The business is really about rejection, so don't take it personally."
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"Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted."
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"Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant."
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"One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason."
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"It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did."
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"When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it."
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"There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult."
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"I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics."
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