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• In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Dignity, Our Family

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Two, Jekyll

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.95, Bibliolis Books

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• Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

  Herbert Simon

  Innovation, Surprise, Unusual

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• Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

  Richard Branson

  Years, Talent, Found

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• When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Men, People

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

  Irvine Welsh

  Behaviour, Realizing, Precedent

  Irvine Welsh (1997). “Marabou Stork Nightmares”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

  Dean Koontz

  Mistake, Men, Long

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• My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Book, Views

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.100, HarperCollins UK

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• Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

  Gustav Klimt

  Artist, Looks, Want

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• Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

  Tom Robbins

  Artist, Reality, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.108, Bantam

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• I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I do. Partly that has to do with feeling like an imposter, like we all do sometimes, and partly I like doing other things, and being a full-time artist takes a focus I recognise I don't have.

  John K. Samson

  Artist, Careers, Focus

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dad, Son, Police

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• I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

  Nancy Springer

  Witty, Kind, Humour

  Nancy Springer (2009). “The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.44, Penguin

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• Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

  Aly Khan

  Islam, Roles, Unjust

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• I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

  Antonio Banderas

  Men, Cry, Difficult

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• Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Rights, Earth Day

  "Bolivia's defiant leader sets radical tone at Cancún climate talks" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

  Paul Kagame

  Development, Today, Pillars

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• People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dog, Names

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.264, The Floating Press

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• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

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• I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

  Brian Eno

  Atheist, People, Giving

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• I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.

  Steve Buscemi

  People, Situation, Ifs

  Guardian interviews at the BFI with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16 , 2001.

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• All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reflection, Self, Ideas

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.170, Psychology Press

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• Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Struggle, Responsibility

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• I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

  John Burns

  Eugenics, Socialism, Hours

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