But now we fans must accept that the inevitable has become a reality with relegation to the Blue Square Premiership.
It's a responsibility that this generation did not ask for, but one that we must accept for the future and our children and our grandchildren.
You know, it's easy, after a hard day's work, to just put your kid in front of the TV set -- you're tired, don't want to fuss with them -- instead of reading to them, but that's a sacrifice we must joyfully accept.
"Deep down there was always the hope something might turn up but, unfortunately, we must now face reality and accept that isn't going to happen", Mr Turner added.
All said, Mr Beinart has produced an original and ambitious study, even if the conclusion he derives from history's slippery lessons is somewhat commonplace: that America must continue to engage with the world but accept the limits of its power and concentrate on rebuilding the economy on which its strength has always rested.
But she said in return for more freedom the police must accept "a transfer of power over policing from Whitehall to communities by giving local people a real say over how their streets are policed".
Capitalism must accept a goal not just of making profits but also of serving a public interest.
But this is another blow to struggling Americans who must pay additional fees and accept confusing and contradictory services.
But underlying all of this is one key concept: you must be willing to accept failures as a necessary part of the innovation process.
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They must persuade angry bond-holders and utility companies not to sue but rather to accept their lot.
But you don't own the network or the content, Byrne points out, and companies must accept that fact to be successful.
He told Newsnight Scotland the "likelihood must be" he will accept the offer to defer the cuts by a year, but admitted it would create a "double whammy" of cuts in the following year, kicking in after the Holyrood elections.
But even if you accept Mr. Geithner's case that the well-to-do must pay more for their presumed "privilege" of being governed, his story ignores the empirical fact that they already do pay a record share of income taxes, even relative to their share of income.
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But he warned that, prior to any final decision, "Parliament must squarely confront what it is doing and accept the political cost".
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Such laws vary from place to place, but all countries, even the United States with its famous first amendment to the constitution, accept that individual freedom must be limited in some respects at least.
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