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An acceptable level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about oratory, nothing

These Scottish MPs in London sound English. Anybody who has a Scottish accent is made aware of it instead of it being perfectly acceptable.

Quote by Sean Connery about being

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Quote by Franz Kafka about opinion, rightness

House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they've done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we've done, which is one of the...

Quote by John Perkins about home, house, limits, war, power

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about poetry, flattering, silence, poets

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Quote by Jodie Foster about cruelty, human imperfections

When you are eliminating the vanity, you can exist in literature, because you find other arguments for the fact that you are existing, less vanitous and the things are then back to normal, in a more acceptable order.

Quote by Dinu Flamand about writing, proudness, vanity, literature, order, things