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  2. The Acceptance World - Wikipedia

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    In his overview of Powell's novels, Understanding Anthony Powell, Nicholas Birns concludes, “The world in which Jenkins ‘seemed to find himself’ at the end of The Acceptance World is poised in an almost exact balance between satisfaction and sorrow.” [4] The novel is dedicated to British portrait and landscape painter Adrian Daintrey. [5]

  3. Social judgment theory - Wikipedia

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    SJT helps to explain why the latitude of acceptance around substances is important. The higher the latitude of acceptance around substances, the more open a person is to trying said substance. The study proposes that in order to reduce substance abuse rates overall, having programs to reduce the latitude of acceptance around substances in teens ...

  4. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    This fact often leads to people exhibiting public compliance—but not necessarily private acceptance—of the group's social norms in order to be accepted by the group. [5] Social norms refers to the unwritten rules that govern social behavior. [6] These are customary standards for behavior that are widely shared by members of a culture. [6]

  5. Barack Obama 2008 presidential election victory speech

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    [3] [4] Viewed on television and the Internet by millions of people around the globe, Obama's speech focused on the major issues facing the United States and the world, all echoed through his campaign slogan of change. [5] He also mentioned his maternal grandmother Madelyn Dunham, who had died just two nights earlier.

  6. Best of all possible worlds - Wikipedia

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    Although God cannot create a self-contradictory world, he is all-powerful and all-knowing, as emphasized in §55. He cannot be prevented from creating a world by not knowing about it, or by lacking the power to make it. Given these assumptions, it might seem that God could create just any one of the worlds.

  7. Acceptance - Wikipedia

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    Acceptance is a core element of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). In this context, acceptance is a process that involves actively contacting psychological internal experiences (emotions, sensations, urges, flashbacks, and other private events) directly, fully, without reacting or becoming defensive.

  8. Nietzschean affirmation - Wikipedia

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    Much of this spirit resides in the abandonment of any sort of new humanism; this acceptance of the inevitable allows for considerable relief – evident in the designation of the loss of center as a non-center – as well as the opportunity to affirm and cultivate play, which enables humanity and the humanities "to pass beyond man and humanism".

  9. Anthropic principle - Wikipedia

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    The anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations are possible only in the type of universe that is capable of developing intelligent life.