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acceptance basically centuries compromise forgiving four society
A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society. Adrienne Clarkson
acceptance people pop problems save
Once we get the public's acceptance on it, we're going to save some money. We've all used a pop machine, it's not that difficult, but people are still having problems with it. Pat Hayes
acceptance people different
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. Barbara Jordan
acceptance air together
[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside. Janet Leigh
acceptance deeds expect proof simple stated
What we need now from the Libyans is not equivocal or conditional statements, but simple straightforward acceptance. We expect their deeds to be the proof of their stated intentions. Peter Burleigh
acceptance bad-ass feminist
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. bell hooks
acceptance american-businessman company either growth products suffering sure time
I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD. Kevin Rollins
acceptance intellectual limits
What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"? Antonio Gramsci
acceptance resistance accepting
Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance. Eckhart Tolle
reality fiction epiphany
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi
reality limits fairy-tale
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. Azar Nafisi
reality men thinking
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. Ayn Rand
reality thinking people
You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are. Brian Bosworth
reality hands order
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist. Boyd Rice
reality people magic
We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard. Jamie Foxx
reality ideas broken
Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality. Jamie Drummond
reality men order
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. Carl Sandburg
reality self giving
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. C. S. Lewis
pieces saw
We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken. Joe Jones
pieces puzzles questioned ran
We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet. Frank Garcia
pieces too-much elements
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much. Alejandro Amenabar
pieces oneself
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.... Alfred Kazin
pieces networking hardware
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness. Douglas Rushkoff
pieces made feels
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon. Dodie Smith
pieces may way
I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me". David Christian
pieces world entertainment
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. David Antin
pieces patient bones
A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants. Ambrose Bierce