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• I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Men, Soul

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• If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.

  Chauncey Depew

  Father, Law, Church

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Oration and memorial addresses”

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• The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happy, Fear, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Spiritual, Men, Unique

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• Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Appreciate, Harsh

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.6

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• Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Men, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics

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• Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.

  Terri E Apter

  Girl, Mother, Fighting

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• Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what about psychosomatic wellness?

  H. E Davey

  Expression, Meditation, Mind

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• Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.

  Faye J Crosby

  Women, Real, May

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children. The problem is not so much to reeducate parents but to make available the help they need and to give them enough power so that they can be effective advocates with and coordinators of the other forces that are bringing up their children.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Self, Giving

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• The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Self, Giving, Needs

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• There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

  George W. Bush

  Differences, Criticism, Guessing

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

  Stephen Levine

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.21, Harmony

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• If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Recognition, Ifs

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• Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

  Warren Buffett

  Dumb, Cease, Limitation

  1993 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter, www.businessinsider.com.

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• First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Responsibility, Political Will

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. October 10, 2014.

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• The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

  Bell Hooks

  Love Is, Verbs, Nouns

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• Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

  Ingrid Weir

  Reality, Enemy

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• You must not be discouraged or let yourself become dejected if your actions have not succeeded as perfectly as you intended. What do you expect? We are made of clay and not every soil
  yields the fruits expected by the one who tills it. But let us always humble ourselves and acknowledge that we are nothing if we lack the Divine assistance.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Humble, Yield, Clay

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• Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fate, Rivers, Water

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• You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Choices, Belief

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Choices, Understanding

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention

  Monica Lewinsky

  Responsibility, Differences, Speaking Up

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