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"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped." Marcel Achard 4.5000 average rating  
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." Henri-Frédéric Amiel 4.7333 average rating  
"We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance." Joan Wester Anderson 4.4800 average rating  
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle 4.4783 average rating  
"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best." Richard Willard Armour 4.5000 average rating  
"Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Saint Francis of Assisi 4.8580 average rating  
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 4.6569 average rating  
"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept." Carl Lotus Becker 4.3333 average rating  
"Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth." Sir Walter Besant 4.2500 average rating  
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk." Dr. Joyce 4.9286 average rating  
"Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place." Gene Brown 4.3333 average rating  
"It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore." Alex Carey 3.0000 average rating  
"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk." Rosalynn Smith Carter 3.6429 average rating  
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." Karen Casey 4.8000 average rating  
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." Dick Cavett 4.4000 average rating  
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." Noam Chomsky 4.5455 average rating  
"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion 4.8333 average rating  
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion 4.8182 average rating  
"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing." Jim Dodge 4.6667 average rating  
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." Dwight David Eisenhower 5.0000 average rating  
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