"Shame must be accepted to be effective."
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"It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists."
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"I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now."
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"The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason."
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"A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written"
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"The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution."
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"I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted."
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"(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved."
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"I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?"
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"Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s."
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"The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance."
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"I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep."
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"One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it."
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"It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused."
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"I am loved and accepted exactly how I am, right here and right now."
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"What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life ."
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"As I get older, everything feels like it's fundamentally connected, and once you've accepted the idea that business is right, and the free market - though there's never really been one - is right, then everything else just follows naturally from there."
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