Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
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A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.
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We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
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I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.
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The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
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I love to play gigs.
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.
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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
