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• You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.

  Mr. Lee

  Hard Work, Champion, Individual

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• It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

  Eva Heller

  Memories, Long, Common

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• When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

  Jeremy Griffith

  Hypocrisy, Failing, Raises

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• What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

  Ann Bridge

  Two, Envy, Accepting

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• To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

  Duncan Bannatyne

  Successful, Skills, People

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• Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

  A.C. Grayling

  Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy

  "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

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• A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Taken, Men, Debt

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• It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.

  Edgar Snow

  Strong, Army, Men

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• Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

  Bruce Nauman

  Needs, Knows

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• I fight because international law recognises my right.

  Xanana Gusmao

  Fighting, Law, International

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.

  Jamake Highwater

  Adventure, Glasses, Self

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• The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Men, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.84, Oscar Wilde

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• Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed.  All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.

  Adolf Hitler

  Common Purpose, Social, Employers

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• National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe.  The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Simple, Europe

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• It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.

  Paul Foster Case

  Teaching, Roots, Light

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• The skin is a true symbol of our health because it's the last place to get nutrition and if you can drive all those nutrients all the way through to the skin then you know it's gotten everywhere else too and that's something that we all recognise.

  David Wolfe

  Skins, Way, Lasts

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• We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Mean, Profound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.248, St. Martin's Press

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• No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Rhode Island, Islands

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• We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.

  William Booth

  Beer, Men, Light

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Beach, Holiday, People

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• My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.

  Gavin Ewart

  Two, Desire, And Love

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• It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

  Helen Waddell

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.

  Judi Shekoni

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

  Sebastian Coe

  School, Exercise, People

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• Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mistake, Arrogance, Sometimes

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