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The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is â€˜doingâ€™ his… — C.S. Lewis
I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and… — Gayle Forman
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you... — Banana Yoshimoto
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so… — Jeanette Winterson
Who was that?â€ I whispered, as if the walls could hear me. They were lined with pictures, a few of which I recognized as being… — Amanda Hocking
Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to… — Madeleine L'Engle
One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is… — Alan Watts
He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadnâ€™t seen one in… — Rick Riordan
There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it… — Steven Brust
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating… — Arundhati Roy
He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky. — Alice Hoffman
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps… — Hermann Hesse
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person… — Max Planck
It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society — R.J. Rushdoony
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us. — Nicholas Sparks
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. — George Orwell
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions,… — Albert Camus

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