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Letter "A" » accepted
«Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.»
Author: Anthony Storr
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accepted, being bold, bold, bolder, boldest, implied, implies, implying, norm, norms, originality
«Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?»
«Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.»
«Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.»
Author: Lesley Hazelton
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
accepted, edge, edge in, edging, generally, generally accepted, imagined, lessened, lessening, lessens, loses, manageable, Over the Edge, remains, suffering, terror, the Terror
«Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
accepted, convenient, future day, great year, harvest, harvest time, playtime, season, Some More, The Harvest, The Hours, usefulness
«There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accepted, all right, aperture, correcting, evidence, hypotheses, perfectly, rigorous, scrutiny, standards, survive
«Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
accepted, closest, continue, distance, distances, For each, human beings, infinite, realization, side by side, sky
«My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.»
«There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it»
Author: Robert Collier
| About:
Possessions
| Keywords:
accepted, earth, fact, once, on earth, There Is Nothing
«Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
accepted, be given, waits
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