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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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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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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I don't smoke much pot anymore.
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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
