“ Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
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“ Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. ”
- Lawrence G. Lovasik- Copy
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“ Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes. ”
- Natasha Josefowitz- Copy
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“ We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ”
- Frederick Koenig- Copy
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“ Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward. ”
- Kiyoko Takeda- Copy
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“ It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight. ”
- Gordon Lindsay- Copy
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“ In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. ”
- Thurgood Marshall- Copy
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“ In believing in others, we are believed. In supporting others, we gain followers, and in recognizing the value of others, we are honored. ”
- Solon B. Cousins- Copy
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“ By living fully, recognizing that all we do is by His power, we honor God; He in turn blesses us. ”
- Becky Laird- Copy
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“ My personal trails have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force… ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Self-awareness — recognizing a feeling as it happens — is the keystone of emotional intelligence… the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and understanding… People with greater certainty about their feelings are better pilots of their lives, having a surer sense of how they really feel about personal decisions… ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ Awareness has to be conclusive. It has to include recognizing our own frustrations, insecurities, and shortcomings, our limits and limitations, even our darkest and most destructive feelings, and the way we may feel overwhelmed or pulled apart. It challenges us to "work with" these very energies consciously and systematically. ”
- Myla and Jon Kabat Zinn- Copy
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“ The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion… . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilisation, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used…Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was… ”
- Gil Bailie- Copy
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“ The post-modern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the post-modern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, "I love you madly," because he knows that she knows that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland… ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
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“ The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven't. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ One of the greatest limitations in our world of philanthropy is the lack of understanding that there is, within each person, a yearning to be part of something larger than ourselves. Recognizing that need and meeting it is the reward of our ministry for humankind. ”
- Arthur C. Frantzreb- Copy
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“ Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires. ”
- C. E. M. Joad- Copy
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“ By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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