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«Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society»
Author: Michael Novak
| About:
Atheism,
Conscience,
Society
| Keywords:
accommodated, Civil society, prior
«Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.»
Author: Virginia Satir
(Educator, Phychologist)
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«We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, beneficial, commercial, concentration, essential condition, industrial, inequality
«I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.»
Author: E. B. White
| Keywords:
accommodated, appreciatively, dictatorially, ingenious, pessimistic, skeptically, submission, viewed
«Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Majority
| Keywords:
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«To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.»
Author: Samuel Beckett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, mess, The Task
«An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| Keywords:
accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, customers, Englishman, fights, Irishman, Order of, precedence, Scotchman, Scotchmen, The Order
«A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, obstinate, prefer, vice
«The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, convenience, exclusively, processes, recognizes, retail, retailing, wholesale
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