Acknowledgment Quotes
74 quotes by 73 authors
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
— John C. Calhoun
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of…
— Saint Augustine
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When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and…
— George Lillo
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Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and…
— Lyman Abbott
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the ideals…
— Manton S. Eddy
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If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and…
— Ben Lerner
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To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it…
— Roxane Gay
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It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing
— Jeff Zucker
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Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the…
— Horatius Bonar
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
— Yousef Munayyer
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
— Samuel Johnson
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...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it…
— Minor White
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Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,…
— Gilbert Adair
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We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from…
— Soledad O'Brien
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Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and…
— David Levithan
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Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.…
— Susan Sontag
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The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
— Walter Lippmann
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