"The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul."
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"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
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"Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard."
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"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make."
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"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."
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"Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.""
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"We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
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"Comedy is a very approval-oriented field."
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"Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society."
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"The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other."
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"Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment."
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"Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based."
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"Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval."
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"Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation."
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"Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure."
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"You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval."
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"We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated.""
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"For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work."
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"Material things aside, we need not advice but approval."
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"Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives."
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