#accepted

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#accepted #admitted #country #fairness #gets

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#become #class #contractor #every #father

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. ↗

— Ben Okri

#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#edwardian #emotional #emotional life #gets #life

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#accepted #adult #amazement #american #character

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. ↗

— Evan Davis

#adhere #behaviour #cheat #conform #doing

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#clash #content #into #our #own

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#generally #heavens #hide #like #privilege

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. ↗

— Bono

#africa #around #brigade #cans #continent

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down