Posts Tagged ‘tolerate’

25. Acceptance

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.–Dave E. Smalley

defined as: 1 a: to receive willingly b: to be able or designed to take or hold (something applied or added) 2: to give admittance or approval to
3 a: to endure without protest or reaction b: to regard as proper, normal, or inevitable c: to recognize as true : believe 4 a: to make a favorable response to b: to agree to undertake (a responsibility) 5: to assume an obligation to pay; also : to take in payment 6: to receive (a legislative report) officially… intransitive verb : to receive favorably something offered…

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