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Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.

After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

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.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

I was struck today with a realization that a friend had way ahead of me. I was equally struck by his ability to live his truth while still accepting me as I was ...a timely lesson for Jan.

I would have a very difficult time, a very difficult time, accepting this as beneficial to the people of Saskatchewan.

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.