#opted

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

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We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

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I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

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Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced. ↗

— Betty Hill

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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. ↗

— Harpo Marx

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