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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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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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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The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.
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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
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Everybody wants to be perfect.
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No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
