"Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel."
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"You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them."
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"In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands."
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"If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational."
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"I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none."
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"He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much."
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"He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly."
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"Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love."
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"I feel like I'm man of the people: meeting people, respecting people and accepting people."
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"Accept that I enjoy being with you. Accept that when I'm with you I see Heaven in your eyes."
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"We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant."
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"Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability."
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"To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid."
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"It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it."
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"Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they're free."
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"Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries."
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"I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy."
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"As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it."
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"In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is."
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"Let's get back to loving our bodies and accepting them totally as they are."
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