#accepts

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blacks #bottom #class #institute #massachusetts

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. ↗

— William Barclay

#attained #certainty #christ #conviction #doubts

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#challenges #leader #manager #quo #status

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#accepts #difficulty #excuse #never

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#action #american #american people #because #believes

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ↗

— George Pataki

#government #longer #people #responsibility #take

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

— Bob Dylan

#accepts #chaos #i #me #sure