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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr)

The world accepts that everyone makes mistakes and he's got a big future as a politician, member of this community and as a father. We wish him well and we want to encourage him to move beyond this thing. (Quote by - Angel Acosta)

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. (Quote by - Tom Wolfe)

The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a relationship with himself -- this grace wherein we stand. This He does for the sake of what man is to inherit, to become. And for the means, He gives him over to a Person, Christ, and a community, the Church; and in attachment to these, personality grows, freedom is attained, sin is forgiven, estrangement is ended, capacities for relationship extend. Reconciliation is the Spirit's liberating work of love, exercised through a Person and a community of persons. (Quote by - G. R. Dunstan)

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. (Quote by - E M Forster)

You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can. (Quote by - Takehito Koyasu)

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. (Quote by - Richard Bach)

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. Thomas C. (Quote by - Haliburton)

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. (Quote by - Alan Oster)

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. (Quote by - Tony Blair)

They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production. (Quote by - Mike Marsh)

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth--and endures all the rest. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. (Quote by - Andrew Lester)

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of "nothing attempted, nothing gained" and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed. (Quote by - Wilferd Arlan Peterson)

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. (Quote by - Joshua L. Liebman)

Through some strange and powerful principle of "mental chemistry" which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, "that something" which recognizes no such word as "impossible," and accepts no such reality as failure. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

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