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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
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"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
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."	Aristotle
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth."	Sir Walter Besant
"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
"Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."	Gene Brown
"It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore."	Alex Carey
"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
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."	Karen Casey
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."	Dick Cavett
"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
"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs."	Joan Didion
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from which self-respect springs."	Joan Didion
"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
"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
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Adam R. Gwizdala	Alex Carey	Allen Ginsberg
Amy Hillyard Jensen	Ann Landers	Aristotle
Ayn Rand	Carl Lotus Becker	Christopher Darlington Morley
Dick Cavett	Dr. Joyce	Dwight David Eisenhower
Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Erica Mann Jong	Erich Fromm
Gene Brown	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Miller	Horace
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Jim Dodge
Joan Didion	Joan Wester Anderson	John
John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John W(illiam) Gardner	Jose Narosky
J. Russel Lynes	Karen Casey	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Marcel Achard	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Mark L. Mika
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides	Napolean Hill
Noam Chomsky	Oliver L. North	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Reinhold Neibuhr	Rena Harmon
Richard Exely	Richard Jordan	Richard Willard Armour
Robert Lee Frost	Roger John	Rosalynn Smith Carter
Saint Francis of Assisi	Sir Walter Besant	Stella Terill Mann
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	William James	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham