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

Age, Long, Young

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Ignorance, Become

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy, Politeness

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing, Cannot, Oratory

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Attitude, Today

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

Personal, Assume, Boasting

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
Todd Barry

Love, Eat, Chicken

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
Kim Kardashian

Mistakes, Others, Learn

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley

Two, Idea, Left

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana

Men, Fire, Adversity

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
Jerry Falwell

Marriage, Family, Values

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Jeff Cooper

Family, Cannot, Themselves

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.
Herman Cain

Black, Trying, American

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
Jean Baudrillard

Today, Giving, Same

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Richard M. Nixon

Best, Found, Offense

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
David Bowie

Music, Age, Past

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.
Christopher Hitchens

May, Perfect, Why

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Power

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred Rogers

Else, Everybody

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Silence, Poet, Flattering

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai

Good, Women, Men

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Jena Malone

Love, Friendship, Respect

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Richard Carlson

Stress, Nothing, Illness

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
Jo Brand

Judge, Find, Become

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
Agnes Martin

Life, Mind, Give

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.
Rashida Jones

Remember, Read, Actually

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
Jacques Derrida

Everything, Possible, Escape

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.
Donna Shalala

Society, Fun, Sex

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
Iain Duncan Smith

Work, Society, Challenge

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