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Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?
Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.
It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.
Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.
I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.
What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.
I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China.
It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.
I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.
When you've left your children and their mother unable to pay for the roof over their head, it's not acceptable.
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
As a group of players, and as a set-up, you need to set your stall out as to what is acceptable and what is not.
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.
I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
Ultimately, you've got to answer your critics on the track, and I am very much hoping 8.41m is acceptable for people.
My position on Speedos changes depending on the country that I'm in. If you're in Europe, it's definitely acceptable.
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.
Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.
Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.
There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable
I personally think that it is acceptable if I take a step forward and can act with more diverse expressions and feelings.
Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Jinnah cannot be honoured in India. He's responsible for the partition of our country. No Jinnah eulogy is acceptable in India.
I don't think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off - that wouldn't be acceptable.
I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It's the acceptable way of talking about life and people.
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.