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  • In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. -- Jacky Ickx
  • I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. -- Juliette Binoche
  • Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are. -- Viggo Mortensen
  • I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. -- Jung Chang
  • Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. -- Juliette Binoche
  • Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. -- John F. Kennedy
  • My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons. -- Jessie Cave
  • All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone. -- Richard von Weizsaecker
  • Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book. -- Lois Lowry
  • I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. -- Chen Shui-bian
  • In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own. -- J. M. Coetzee
  • With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past. -- Sean Brady
  • Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you. -- Tony Benn
  • People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK. -- Noreena Hertz
  • It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are. -- Roisin Turner
  • The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve. -- Lady Bird Johnson
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