#accepting

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#becomes #children #connection #dying #hypocrisy

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#caring #citizen #deeper #destined #each

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week. ↗

— Sean Hayes

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

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#come #countries #neighbours #other #our

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. ↗

— Paul Tournier

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People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change. ↗

— John Zorn

#change #hard #hard time #people #sometimes

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#calm #children #hear #important #keep

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. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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