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• I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

  Venerable Bede

  Reborn, Centre, Nothingness

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• We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Priorities, World, Contradiction

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• My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Learning, Keys, Control Myself

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• As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Successful, World, May

  Interview with Erin Malone, October 27, 2002.

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• I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Government, Law, Evil

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• But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.

  Daniel Yergin

  Ties, Important, Energy

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• The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Islamic, Differences

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Celebrate what you want to see more of.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Perspective, Different, Needs

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• Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

  Albert Camus

  History, Encounters, Want

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.248, Vintage

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• A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Battle, Lost

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• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Vanity, Changed

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  Patricia Heaton

  Taken, Acknowledge Him, Hug

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• The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Sin, Blind

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fall, Humility, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

  John Cleese

  Humor, Ideas, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.

  Joe Mantegna

  People, Benefits, Lines

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• Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently

  Dwight Yoakam

  Musical, Trying, Quality

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• While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

  George Combe

  Character, Law, Scotland

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• If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

  Mark Foley

  Common Vision, Turkeys, Leader

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• The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Jesus, Children, Artist

  Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.138, Univ of California Press

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• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, People, Favors

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• The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Jesus, Long

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• The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

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• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Ideas, Details

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