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Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
Jimmy Carter

Great, Christian, Leader

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
Joe Biden

Become, Emotion, Style

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
J. C. Watts

Against, Order, Secure

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine

Life, Change, Times

I got accepted at Yale but never went.
Shia LaBeouf

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
Catherine Deneuve

Simple, Fight, Seem

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall

Lies, Foundation, Based

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
Robert Collier

Thought, Enough, Often

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor

School, Try, Rather

Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.
John Podhoretz

Long, Matter, Once

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Paul Valery

Everyone, Almost, False

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
Kanye West

Good, Someone, Why

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.
Rod Stewart

Family, Government, Public

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
David Bailey

Success, Money, Everyone

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Charles Horton Cooley

Good, Character, Words

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
Peter Singer

Food, Suffering

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.
Roy H. Williams

Life, Truth, Two

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
Johnny Vegas

Work, Family, Carry

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller

Addiction, Once, Secrecy

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
Martha Plimpton

Family, Women, Society

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.
Lauryn Hill

Against, Action, Tax

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
James Wolcott

Great, Snow, Why

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
Freeman Dyson

Wisdom, Become, Physics

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
Gene Tierney

Act, Needed, Intended

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright

Hope, True, Worked

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
will.i.am

Music, Fighting, Pop

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson

Become, Once, Soon

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.
Evan Davis

Others, Rather, Cheat

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Nigel Farage

Wisdom, Become, Idea

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
George Henry Lewes

Truth, Him, Law

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