Acknowledged Quotes
226 quotes by 209 authors
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Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
— Caroline Wells Healey Dall
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True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because…
— Franz Bardon
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The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
— Roger Caillois
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I am glad that the Crown have proved that I am the leader of the Half-breeds in the North-West. I will perhaps be one day…
— Louis Riel
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be…
— Octavius Winslow
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What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
— David Steindl-Rast
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When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them…
— Barbara Marciniak
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...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable…
— Toni Morrison
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Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
— Ted Nelson
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
— Stephen Covey
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Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite…
— Cleta Mitchell
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It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of…
— Thomas Kuhn
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In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had…
— Robert Fulghum
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
— Samuel Johnson
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The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their…
— Chris Hedges
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The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole…
— Stephen Mitchell
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Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less…
— John Frusciante
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We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all…
— Mary Baker Eddy
Who Wrote These Acknowledged Quotes
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