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Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.