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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Racism, Principles

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• Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

  Tom Hanks

  Character, Thinking, Looks

  "Tom Hanks on his diabetes, pirates and rapping with Dan Aykroyd". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2013.

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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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• Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

  Susie Orbach

  Confused, Mean, Emotional

  "Bite by bite to success" by Susie Steiner, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2002.

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• We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness.

  Harold Klemp

  Inspiration, Soul, Body

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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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• 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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• There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

  Arthur Eddington

  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Denial, Outcomes

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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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• When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Believe, Writing

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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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• People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

  Hugh Laurie

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

  Alain de Botton

  Song, Home, Garden

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.55, Penguin UK

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• The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Voice, Feelings

  Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

  Muriel Spark

  Years, Important, Remember

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'

  Robert Winston

  Children, Television, Influence

  "Seeing is believing" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2004.

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• I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, People, Authority

  "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

  Gabrielle Union

  Beauty, African American, Hollywood

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• I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, People, Challenges

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