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"What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"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
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession."	Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth."	Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."	Ann Landers
"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."	J. Russel Lynes
"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."	Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
"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
"The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake."	Henry Louis Mencken
"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic."	Henry Louis Mencken
"Always accept good fortune with grace and humility."	Mark L. Mika
"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."	Henry Miller
"There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow."	Christopher Darlington Morley
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause."	Jose Narosky
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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