Acknowledged Quotes
226 quotes by 209 authors
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
— Jane Austen
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
— Christian Bale
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I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other…
— Tony Abbott
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
— William J. Brennan
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
— Corazon Aquino
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged…
— Ernestine Rose
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
— George Santayana
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs…
— Michael Polanyi
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The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising…
— James Madison
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure…
— James Weldon Johnson
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The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions…
— Philippe Aries
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of…
— Ian Cawsey
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The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully…
— Arlene Raven
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We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and…
— Andrei Sakharov
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The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature…
— Herbert Turnbull
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Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my…
— Alice Stewart
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the…
— Victoria Woodhull
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,…
— Thomas Malthus
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Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
— Laurens van der Post
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The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source…
— Alexander Hamilton
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