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We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation. -- Michael H. Moskow
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. -- Alice Walker
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. -- Jean Piaget
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. -- Oliver Goldsmith
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. -- Jonathan Edwards
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
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
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
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
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
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. -- Chris Patten
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. -- Robert Sternberg
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
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself. -- Sam Harris
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
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
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
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. -- Ray Stannard Baker
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
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage. -- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. -- Alan Furst
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available. -- Ethel Waters
All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person. -- Graeme Simsion
I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap. -- Grace Slick
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality. -- Sam Harris
All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary. -- Strobe Talbott
What are you doing here? (Jericho) Do my accommodations offend you? I've grown quite used to them. Though a view of something other than mangled bodies might be nice for a change. (Jaden) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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