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In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.