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To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a… — Bertrand Russell
Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.… — Emily Giffin
(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again. — Erin Hunter
Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior… — Clarice Lispector
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if… — Robin McKinley
In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path. — Daniel Pinchbeck
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek… — Glenn Beck
True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it. — Francine Rivers
We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the… — Richard Avedon
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete.… — Aleksandar Hemon
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not… — Eric Clapton
Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into… — Christopher Isherwood
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not… — Ian Fleming
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering. — Josh Lanyon
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in… — Jonathan Safran Foer
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made… — Edith Wharton
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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