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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant.

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.

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

The lesson that I would hope everyone would learn quite early in their career is don't take it personally. Whatever it is that happens, you're accepted for a role or rejected for a role of whatever, don't take it personally. It's part of the business and the person that is either hiring or firing-that's their business. That's what they are there for and it has nothing to do with how you feel about ... It has to do with someone else's perception of should you do this particular part, so just don't take it personally,. The business is really about rejection, so don't take it personally.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did.