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«Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.»
Author: Virginia Satir
(Educator, Phychologist)
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«We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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«Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.»
Author: Samuel Beckett
(Writer)
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«An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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«If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself»
«Let us not be so difficult; the most accommodating are the cleverest.»
«A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
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«The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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