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• If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

  Paul Wellstone

  Freedom, Fighting, Thinking

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• Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

  Jean Charest

  Being Different, Unity, Identity

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• Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

  Debbie Ford

  Inspirational, Unmasking, Way

  Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

  John M. Perkins

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Pain

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• Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Nice, Opportunity, Yellow

  "CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at Johns Hopkins graduation". hub.jhu.edu. May 22, 2014.

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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• The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Respect, Mistake, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Responsibility, Government, Issues

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

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• Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

  John Ashcroft

  Voice, Priorities, Should

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• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Life, Success, Peace

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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• Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

  Bruce Lee

  Exercise, Mind, Needs

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• We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

  Mehmet Oz

  Mistake, Care, Fixing

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Character, Balance, Trying

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

  Richard Ford

  Maturity, Peculiar, Admitting

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.77, A&C Black

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• wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Faces, Your Face, Seeing

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.66, Penguin

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• He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Flower, Men, Looks

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

  Louise Penny

  Paradise

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• When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hate, Humanity, Risk

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.141, Random House

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• Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Guilty, Cursing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mistake, Imposter, Bits

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Fighting, Dragons

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• Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Blue, Sea

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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