#accepted

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes. ↗

— John Hench

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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#eccentric #every #fear #now #once

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#carrying #concentrate #continue #especially #got

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

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The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. ↗

— Dick Spring

#british #british government #clearly #government #irish