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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. ↗

— George MacDonald

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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance. ↗

— Barry Mann

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By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

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It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. ↗

— Roger Mahony

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The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. ↗

— John Major

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A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. ↗

— Jena Malone

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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. ↗

— David Mamet

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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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