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To make
oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very
different thing from being a passive object.
-- Simone De Beauvoir
1908-1986, French Novelist,
Essayist
The minute you
settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you
settled for.
-- Maureen Dowd
American Newspaper Columnist
One must not
attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature
simply and clearly.
-- Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born
American Physicist
Accept the
place the divine providence has found for you, the society
of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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Once we accept
our limits, we go beyond them.
-- Brendan Francis
Ah, when to
the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with
the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow
and accept at the end of a love or a season.
-- Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet
Always fall in
with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and
make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to
hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
-- Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet
The strongest
and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term
maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms
deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but
consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in
their own domination.
-- Maurice Godelier
1934-, French Anthropologist
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