#pta

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#affairs #conduct #dangerous #ghraib #ground

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted. ↗

— Toby Young

#been #being #celebrity #establishment #got

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #because #came #core #days

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#age #along #drag #error #into

The status quo is simply unacceptable. ↗

— Brad Henry

#simply #status #status quo #unacceptable

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time. ↗

— Richard Gough

#because #british #captained #charlton #did

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#adaptation #been #biology #centrality #discovering

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game. ↗

— David Gower

#advantage #been #captain #game #get

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. ↗

— Martha Graham

#age #glory #maturity #term #years

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#example #good #good example #i #i think