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Tag Name "Acceptable" (395)

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Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.
Howard Thompson
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I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.
Nick Hornby
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Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.
Kim Harrison
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Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.
Rachel Kushner
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We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Jason Alexander
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My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
Benjamin Disraeli
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There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
Alix Kates Shulman
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris
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mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph Heller
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Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
Osbert Lancaster
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The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.
John Dewey
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The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
Plutarch
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Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
Margaret Thatcher
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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd
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Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.
Maya Angelou
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
Jacques Derrida
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.
Eric Andre
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Malcolm X
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I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
Douglas Rushkoff
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This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.
Kate Bornstein
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Prepare thy soul calmly to obey such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.
Pietro Metastasio
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