#accepted

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities. ↗

— Mark Spitz

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. ↗

— Paracelsus

#come #dreams #great #heeded #many

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#best #change #changes #choose #i

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called. ↗

— Bill Shuster

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When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#accepted #against #beings #between #closest

It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#drama #ethan #uncertainty #drama

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#bounds #disciplined #free #life #mind

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders. ↗

— Pat Brown

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