#accepting

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#argument #debate #instead #missing #sorts

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #american revolution #around #came #concept

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#fatalism #inevitable #lazy #man #way

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens. ↗

— Phil Collins

#because #become #been #better #bit

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#because #chance #cry #draw #experience

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. ↗

— Thucydides

#doing #favors #friends #our #secure

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. ↗

— Mark Twain

#another #another way #awards #more #noise

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#before #easy #i #just #out

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#cannot #further #get #help #interest

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#argument #congressman #essentially #idea #industry