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Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. -- Jean Piaget
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. -- Carl Sagan
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. -- Andre Breton
Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair. -- Dave Barry
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. -- Jean Piaget
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. -- Henry Petroski
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. -- Mary Douglas
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. -- Jalal Talabani
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. -- Ruth Benedict
I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. -- Edvard Munch
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie. -- Wim Wenders
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of public accommodation, he believed he was taking considerable political risks. -- Robert Dallek
I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology. -- Stockard Channing
I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit. -- John Hawley
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia. -- John Howard
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat! -- Benedict Cumberbatch
It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary. -- Rose George
We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation. -- Michael H. Moskow
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. -- Charles Brockden Brown
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. -- Kathe Kollwitz
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations. -- J. William Fulbright
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. -- Alice Walker
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. -- William Empson
As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism . -- William A. Dembski
Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
We are staying in basic accommodation but it doesn't matter to me, it's all about the experience. -- Eamon
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness. -- Robert Barron
The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation -- Barack Obama
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience. -- Jean Piaget
For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate -- Michael H. Moskow
I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change. -- Nelson Mandela
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community -- Ruth Benedict
I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding. -- William Shakespeare
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. -- Eugene McCarthy
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. -- Mark Twain
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. -- Learned Hand
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any. -- Warren E. Burger
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment. -- Ernst Haeckel
Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow. -- Zhang Xin
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. -- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled. -- Jean Piaget
Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. -- Francis Schaeffer
Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law. -- Charles Haynes
Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change. -- Dan Millman
Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so -- Lord Chesterfield
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. -- Gretel Ehrlich
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible. -- Salvador Minuchin

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