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Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.
Josh KaufmanRead
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.
Richard LewontinRead
The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role impressed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.
Paulo FreireRead
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.
Eckhart TolleRead
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.
Alexis De TocquevilleRead
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
Brennan ManningRead
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.
Eckhart TolleRead
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
Mikhail GorbachevRead
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
Joel OsteenRead
The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.
Robin HobbRead
It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.
Natalie GoldbergRead
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question....Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
Stephen HarperRead
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.
Mircea EliadeRead
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
Shunryu SuzukiRead
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself. … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.
John Maynard KeynesRead
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
John Maynard KeynesRead
Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.
Frederick DouglassRead
You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
Bill ParcellsRead
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
Wendell BerryRead
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.
Christiaan BarnardRead

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