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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Education, Children, Kids

  "'Collective' outrage over MSNBC promo". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.

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• The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

  Jonathan Sacks

  God, Faith, Religious

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• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Inspirational, Truth, Doubt

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• As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Government, Space, People

  A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.

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• Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Prayer, Islamic, Angel

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• If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Thinking

  C.K. Prahalad (2009). “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits”, p.25, FT Press

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• Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

  Madame de Stael

  Lying, Resemblance Is, Differences

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

  Joan Didion

  Respect, Self, Anything Worth Having

  "Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Book by Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect", 1968.

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• There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

  Bill Cosby

  People, Trouble, Mess

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• Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!

  Audrey Meadows

  Stars, Fans, Excited

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• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Play, Motorcycle, Twists

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• Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

  Dennis Hastert

  Mean, Government, Priorities

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• A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.

  Darren Johnson

  Letting Go, Stay Strong, Moving

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• I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

  David Bowie

  Heart, America, Facts

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• To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

  Elihu Root

  War, Civilization, Causes

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Judging, Judgement

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.124, Sophia Institute Press

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• The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

  Judd Gregg

  Government, Long, Choices

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• Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

  Mark Pryor

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Bravery

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• Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

  Jose Saramago

  Vocabulary, Knowing, Communicate

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• Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Smart, Science

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• I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

  Jacques Derrida

  Political, Intellectual, Roles

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

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• But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback.

  Catherine Bell

  People, Fans, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

  Sara Gilbert

  People, Would Be, Able

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