Recognized Quotes
936 quotes by 826 authors
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The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the…
— Rick Riordan
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It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.
— Marissa Meyer
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Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it…
— Rainbow Rowell
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it…
— Walter Benjamin
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
— Mary McCarthy
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It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of…
— Herbert Butterfield
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It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are…
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized…
— Margaret Mead
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Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative…
— Kofi Annan
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I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still…
— Gabrielle Reece
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A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed…
— Theodore Levitt
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in…
— Henry Taube
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This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life.…
— Fritjof Capra
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A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with…
— Saint Ambrose
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My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I was recognized by the person standing…
— Erica Cerra
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