Recognizing Quotes - Page 17

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

Robert Breault

Needs, Arms, Lord

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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

Henry Adams

Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

Desmond Tutu

Humanity, Dependent

FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Dec 18, 2014

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When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.

Tertullian

Baby, Taken, Angel

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Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.

Prince Charles

Encouragement, Business, Power

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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Jared Diamond

Roles, Today, Facts

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There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence

Kim Campbell

Gun, Impact, Needs

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To deny an entire group of people the ability to be legal couples is anti-American and anti-freedom. As a devoted husband and father of two, I can't imagine the state of Minnesota not recognizing my love for my wife Isabelle. We would welcome and respect the equal rights for gays to experience the same joy and privileges of marriage that we do.

Chris Kluwe

Couple, Husband, Father

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We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

James R. Schlesinger

Oil, People, Pompeii

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I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.

Rachel Maddow

Creativity, Gay, Worry

"Rachel Maddow: How This Wonky-Tonk Woman Won TV". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 5, 2011.

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Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

Abraham Lincoln

Bible, God, Religious

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

Bernard Iddings Bell

Freedom, Men, Each Day

Bernard Iddings Bell (1933). “Men Wanted!”

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I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

Cinda Williams Chima

Wise, Found, Enjoy

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Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur

Marc Levy

Lying, Heart, Feet

Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.

Wendy Mass

Broken, Together, Pieces

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To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.

Brené Brown

Gratitude, Pain, Believe

"The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Humility, Way, Sin

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.74, SCM Press

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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

George Soros

Money, Mistake, Wealth

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The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.

Aruna Roy

Strength, Responsibility, People

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Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth, power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right approach. And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us.

Robin Hahnel

Fighting, Knowing, Community

"Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy". Book by Robin Hahnel, 1999.

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Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Buddhist, Mind, Lost

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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Masters, Prove

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With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Ronald Reagan

Eye, Reality, Destiny

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Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Leonard Bernstein

Music, Writing, Self

Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.272, Amadeus Press

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Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

LZ Granderson

Sports, Book, Track

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