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• Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Belief, Latter

  Charles Darwin (1988). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 16: The Origin of Species, 1876”, p.443, NYU Press

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• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Heart, Would Be

  Abraham Lincoln (1842). “An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln: Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield Illinois, on the 22d Day of February, 1842”, p.12

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• I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

  Alexander the Great

  Victory, May, Taste

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• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

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• In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Zero, Identity, Privilege

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.107, Vintage

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• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  Alfred Smee

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128

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• To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

  Brennan Manning

  Mean, Dark, Light

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Errors, God Knows Best

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

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• I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Events, Moments, Higher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.5, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  People, Helping, God Help

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• I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

  Anne Bronte

  Pride, Helping, Miserable

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.183, Diversion Books

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• If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

  Francois Fenelon

  Vanity, Imperfection, Annoyed

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• None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Judging

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Nov. 1738

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• We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Order, Damage

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• In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

  Walter Scott

  Party, Faults, Quarrels

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• Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

  Nathanael Emmons

  Beautiful, Long, Veils

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.101

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• Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

  Thucydides

  Real, Thinking, Opportunity

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

  Confucius

  Pride, Doe, World

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• Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christianity, Neighbor, Modern

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Oct 10, 2013

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• However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Jesus, May, Matter

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• It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Benefits, Moral, Rich

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• The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.

  Dean Baker

  Hate, War, People

  "Won’t You Please Come to Chicago?" by Dean Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Reflection, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

  Hannah Simone

  Valentine, Writing, Talking

  "New Girl: Hannah Simone On Playing Drunk And Schmidt's 'Hidden Talent'". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 30, 2012.

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