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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
Abraham Maslow
Time
You
Man
Frustration
Hatred
Childish
Hell
Way
Out
Be A Man
Riot
Rioting
Rise
Takes
Accept
Trying
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Albert Schweitzer
Spiritual
You
Back
Those
Impart
Something
Road
Accept
Precious
Being
Them
Much
Your
Who
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
Yourself
First
Worst
Accept
Improve
Happen
Proceed
Ask
Then
Prepare
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You
Change
People
Try
Nothing
Faster
Accept
Priority
According
Than
Done
Move
Mean
Means
Fast
Things
Need
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.
Fred Rogers
Good
Day
Parenting
Understanding
Believe
Our
Ourselves
Would
Exactly
Able
Come
Accept
Came
Were
Ultimate
Very
Close
Children
Then
Means
Ever
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
You
Man
Regret
Before
Must
Seeing
Insists
Perfect
Never
He
Clearness
Accept
Decide
Who
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann Hesse
Life
Love
Death
Great
Transformation
Sweet
Call
Accept
Answer
Affirmative
Eternal
Forms
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell
Truth
Man
Dangerous
Power
Moral
Must
Rate
More
He
Idea
Make
Accept
Does
Tariff
Than
Fixing
Refuses
Should
Working
Who
Even
Position
We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.
Kyle Hill
Eyes
Our
Everything
Distorting
Tend
Over
Like
Look
Bias
Accept
Does
Prior
Discredit
Confirmation
Information
Ignore
Beliefs
Spectacles
I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
Leo Varadkar
Life
Myself
Rights
Abortion
Consider
Unborn
Support
Demand
Accept
Pro-Life
Human
Request
Human Life
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
Good
Evil
Must
Temporarily
Never
Accept
Label
May
Lesser
Necessary
Necessary Evil
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
Marilyn Manson
Buy
People
Burden
Sit
Laugh
Tell
TV
Rather
Like
Supposed
Most
Accept
Front
Want
Them
Originality
People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
Martin Yan
Travel
People
New Things
Live
Those
See
New
Global
Know
Accept
Because
Front
Where
Cannot
Them
View
Who
Things
You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.
Mary Oliver
Spiritual
You
World
Able
About
Accept
Understand
Truly
Order
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Arrogance
Sometimes
Mistakes
Own
Difficult
Punished
Recognise
Guilty
Must
Accept
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.
Octavio Paz
Cause
Ethics
Language
Relations
Our
Minds
Worrisome
Ease
Disturbing
Fact
Between
Concern
Accept
Rhetoric
Which
Perverse
Games
Less
Twisted
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
Pope Francis
Me
Patience
Trust
Election
Christ
Mercy
Our
Gaze
Our Lord
Penance
Would
Spirit
Accept
Said
Lord
Am
Lord Jesus
Lord Jesus Christ
His
Sinner
Infinite
Turned
Asked
Whom
Jesus
Jesus Christ
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller
People
Think
Way
Out
Terms
Accept
Fresh
Doing
Just
Conventional
Conventional Way
Should
Things
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee
Fight
People
Long
Situation
Christian
Must
Pursue
Know
Well
Accept
Course
How
Been
Us
Fought
Now
Defeated
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost
Life
You
Fall
Whatever
Own
Aim
Way
My Own
Given
Take
Over
Make
Accept
Always
Been
Going
Hold
Against
Asked
Your
Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
Said Nursi
Grief
Anxiety
Compassion
Somebody
Power
Pain
Everything
Torment
Relief
Find
All-Powerful
Rely
Troubles
Accept
Without
Renounce
His
Accuse
Owns
Your
Rid
Reason
Serenity
Suffer
Ad
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Me
Respect
Equality
Envy
Passion
Master
Seems
No Respect
Merely
Accept
Which
Disparage
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
Amos Oz
Injustice
Unhappy
Somewhere
Sense
State
Our
Sides
Compromise
Both
Both Sides
Contain
Learn
Accept
How
End
Up
Stop
Doomed
Burned
Coexist
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
Arlo Guthrie
Challenges
People
Challenge
Responsibility
Understanding
Own
Other
Everyone
Those
Only
Point
Point Of View
Terms
Also
Accept
Another
Person
View
Your
Tolerate
Express
Eagerly
Serving
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
Colin Quinn
Time
Great
Crazy
Humanity
Fault
Behavior
Every
Every Time
Back
Our
Way
Take
Step
Step Forward
Primitive
Accept
Go
Contradiction
Same
Just
Us
Meant
Meant To Be
Who
Forward
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
Creighton Abrams
Needs
Ethics
Guardian
Country
Guarding
Must
Finest
Accept
Being
While
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