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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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.
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.
The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.
no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.
In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.
The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.
Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
My audience has accepted me for a long time as, you know, not a fat comedian but a comedian who happens to be fat. That's a huge difference.
I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
My parents' love for each other lasted throughout their whole life. They didn't give up... They accepted each other totally unconditionally.
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.
'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.
I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.
The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.
Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
I'm used to taking risks - my career was a risk. Being a stand-up comic is not something that's normally accepted when your mother is Filipino.
You can be accepted in a film which is amazing, and the same person can be rejected in another film whose content does not resonate with people.
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package.