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• If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)

  Roland Barthes

  Strong, Mean, Weakness

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Circles

  Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

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• to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Mean, Light

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.121, Penguin UK

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

  George Washington

  Bible, Thanksgiving, God

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.

  Peter Coyote

  Nature, Independent, Animal

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• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Past, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.31, New World Library

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• Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.394

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• When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Believe, Choices, Identity

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• I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

  Andrew McMahon

  Life, Beautiful, Carpe Diem

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• Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.

  Tina Fey

  Mom, Husband, Thinking

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• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Strength, Short Life, Acceptance

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• When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Lying, Acceptance, Unique

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.23, Bantam

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• I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blow, Men, Finals

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• We won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea. We consider this to be a very reckless regime. We don't think we need a Band-Aid, and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture. We think that we need to have the, stop nuclear weapons, and they need to stop it now. So, North Korea can talk with anyone they want, but the US. is not going to recognize it or acknowledge it, until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have.

  Nikki Haley

  Thinking, Reckless, North Korea

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• Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sleep, People

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• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?

  Nikki Sixx

  Book, Journey, Long

  Nikki Sixx (2011). “This Is Gonna Hurt (Enhanced Edition): Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Forgiving, Able, Failing

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• It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.

  Cate Tiernan

  Gratitude, Matter, Chance

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• Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Thank God, Would Be

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.51, SCM Press

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• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Everything Happens For A Reason, Tools

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• The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

  John Calvin

  Needs, Scripture, Fool

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