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"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."	Dr. Joyce
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."	John
"Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage."	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
"In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon."	Horace
"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far."	Erica Mann Jong
"Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God."	Richard Jordan
"Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth."	Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Listening is a form of accepting."	Stella Terill Mann
"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."	Reinhold Neibuhr
"Accept your genius and say what you think."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season."	Robert Lee Frost
"Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."	Saint Francis of Assisi
"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."	Allen Ginsberg
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."	William James
"Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow."	Adam R. Gwizdala
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Adam R. Gwizdala	Alex Carey	Allen Ginsberg
Amy Hillyard Jensen	Ann Landers	Aristotle
Ayn Rand	Carl Lotus Becker	Christopher Darlington Morley
Dick Cavett	Dr. Joyce	Dwight David Eisenhower
Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Erica Mann Jong	Erich Fromm
Gene Brown	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Miller	Horace
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Jim Dodge
Joan Didion	Joan Wester Anderson	John
John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John W(illiam) Gardner	Jose Narosky
J. Russel Lynes	Karen Casey	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Marcel Achard	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Mark L. Mika
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides	Napolean Hill
Noam Chomsky	Oliver L. North	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Reinhold Neibuhr	Rena Harmon
Richard Exely	Richard Jordan	Richard Willard Armour
Robert Lee Frost	Roger John	Rosalynn Smith Carter
Saint Francis of Assisi	Sir Walter Besant	Stella Terill Mann
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	William James	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham