#accepted

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #becomes #bribe #changes #effect

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#africa #been #biggest #countries #developing

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#according #almost #common #had #mankind

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#citing #claims #easily #exceptions #exposed

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#actions #cannot #defence #hitler #immediate

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.' ↗

— Mischa Barton

#got #like #messed #messed up #other

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

#adherence #based #doctrinaire #everyone #evolution

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. ↗

— Dick Spring

#british #british government #clearly #government #irish

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#accepted #any #felt #got #had