Acceptable Quotes
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To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical-as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously ... It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.
Wolfgang Pauli -
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
Judith Wright
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We don't need to allow our vision of justice to be constrained only by what seems realistic from the perspective of today, and especially not by what powerful & privileged groups deem acceptable or pragmatic.
Ali Abunimah -
I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.
Izabel Goulart -
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
Steve Huffman -
We are in talks and there are other solutions, much more of a compromise than those which were in the parliament. One has to find a solution somewhere in between. There are many ideas, I hope we can work out a solution that would be acceptable.
Andrzej Duda -
I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.
Merrill Markoe -
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
Alix Kates Shulman
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What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.
William Maxwell -
Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.
Mike Bouchard -
I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp -
People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and stuff. But I think it's more acceptable these day for guys to take care of themselves.
Nick Youngquest -
Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.
Candy Lightner -
"I mean if there are going to be missiles that are going off and there are going to be going off over Canadian airspace whether we want it or not, no I don't think that is acceptable. I think that we want to be at the table."
Paul Martin
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There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
Joseph Glanvill -
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
Milton Sapirstein -
Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.
Sarah Pinborough -
If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'
Tony Blair -
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Northrop Frye