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• Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

  Alan Cohen

  Ambition, Feel Good, Feels

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• Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Country, Goal, Progress

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• Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Thinking, Encounters, Fundamentals

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Thankfulness, Faithfulness, Goodness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.99, NavPress

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• When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Patterns, Information, Determine

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• I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Grateful, Thinking, Community

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• ...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Blood, Age

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• There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

  Khalil Gibran

  Generosity, Giving, Desire

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspiration, Mirrors, Effort

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.114, Penguin

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• Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Ideas, Peers

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• It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.

  Thurman Arnold

  Government, Law, Opposites

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• Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural group in America, a nationality in Eastern Europe, and in Palestine an actualized nation.

  Milton Steinberg

  Mean, Israel, Europe

  "The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow". Book by Gil Troy, 2018.

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• But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Would Be, Answers

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• Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

  Paul Robeson

  Sports, Art, Struggle

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Work, Past, Track

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• But the problem remains two fold: the need for recognition that low thyroid function very often can provoke menstrual problems, and the need for recognition, too, that hypothyroidism may be present despite laboratory tests suggesting it is not.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Pms, Two, Often Can

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• Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

  Ken Wilber

  Cognition, Spirit, Right Now

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.366, Shambhala Publications

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• We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world.

  Jennifer James

  Thanksgiving, Offering, Feelings

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• Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.

  George W. Bush

  Attitude, Issues, Justice

  George W. Bush's Prime Time News Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 11, 2001.

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• But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Struggle, Imagination, Survival

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• To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

  Bell Hooks

  Communication, Commitment, Care

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.5, HarperCollins

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• The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.

  Herbert Hoover

  Russia, United States, November

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Light, Giving, Wonder

  Henry Edward Manning (1874). “Sin and Its Consequences”, p.256

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• There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the feelings I would like my work to inspire. This is the quality of life that I believe in.

  Ralph Lauren

  Meaningful, Appreciation, Believe

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• What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.

  Barbara Kruger

  Trying, Moments

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