Acknowledge Quotes - Page 34

• Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

  Richard Lewontin

  Work Out, Gravity, Currents

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.

  Dave Matthews

  Country, Race, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Use, Limits

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, www.dissentmagazine.org. 2012.

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• Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Laughing, Way

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• All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

  Robert Zoellick

  Real, Mistake, Moving

  "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

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• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Brain, Awful

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• The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Important

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• Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

  Dan Ariely

  Smart, Addresses, Irrational

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Nba

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

  Jonathan Coe

  Drinking, Coffee, People

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• Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mind, Mouths, May

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• Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Bullying, Prevention, Facts

  "School Bullying: What You Haven’t Heard" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

  Eve Ensler

  Joy, Hunger, Absence

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.206, Macmillan

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• My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

  David Byrne

  Agency, Government, Watches

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.76, Three Rivers Press

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• Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

  Stephen Colbert

  Horse, Dark, Black

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• We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

  John Flavel

  Believe, Yield, Blood

  John Flavel (1740). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole”, p.276

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• The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time- how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation" To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances- not even with Israel- how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Fighting, Unique

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• As an Orthodox Jew I must acknowledge that a society can only be successful if it adheres to God's basic plan. By recognizing that a battle is raging and that, right now, Christian conservatives are leading the side I believe is morally, historically, and intellectually correct, I find myself linking arms with those so many of my coreligionists vilify.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, Believe, Successful

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.120, Multnomah

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• I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

  Roy Moore

  Scary, Alabama, Firsts

  "Donald Trump's Potential Supreme Court Nominees Could Concern Conservatives" by Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. February 15, 2016.

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• I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.

  Roy Moore

  Prayer, Scary, Would Be

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• You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Believe, Government

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• You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

  David Simon

  Drama, Ordinary, Tvs

  "Behind The Wire". Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. December 1, 2006.

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• I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

  Nate Parker

  Hero, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever therefore acknowledges himself to be a zealous follower of truth, of happiness, of wisdom, of science, or even of faith, must of necessity make himself a lover of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Library, Zealous

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• It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Mistake, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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