Acknowledge Quotes - Page 40

• I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an impoverished view of the kinds of questions we humans can ask, such as "Why am I here?", "What happens after we die?", "Is there a God?" If you refuse to acknowledge their appropriateness, you end up with a zero probability of God after examining the natural world because it doesn't convince you on a proof basis.

  Richard Dawkins

  Zero, Views, World

  Source: inters.org

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• We all acknowledge there are some things that need to be torn down and removed, but it seems to me that a leader who removes something must be able to recognize the necessity of replacing it with something that is effective and sustainable - so you don't just tear down, you have to build up.

  James Robison

  Leader, Tears, Needs

  Source: stream.org

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• I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

  James Mattis

  Sorry, Defense, Records

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.

  T.I.

  Failing, Accepting, Ifs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I personally think President [Hosni] Mubarak, who's done a lot for Egypt, should acknowledge that his time has come and step down right away.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thinking, Egypt, President

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The situation in Georgia is determined by the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While we must acknowledge the reforms initiated by Mikheil Saakashvili that drastically lowered the level of corruption and authoritarian structures in the Georgian state, under the above-mentioned circumstances, the ruling elite must keep a firm grip on the country.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Reform, Levels

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.

  Nick Jonas

  Thinking, Role Models, Decision

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  War, Fall, Fighting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• However, there are moderate and non-moderate Muslims, I acknowledge that.

  Geert Wilders

  Moderates

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Fighting, Europe, People

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• I'm not selling out, denying who I am or where I've come from, not at all. I acknowledge that.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Who I Am, Selling, Selling Out

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.

  Wole Soyinka

  Past, Thinking, Space

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Feel Good, Challenges

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Guy, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• You can't believe your own hype, or your own worst moments. Neither is as important as knowing your "why." The harder the challenges are, the more this matters. It is a true gift that I'm so grateful for to my core when someone else sees and acknowledges my why. But you can't expect it or need it. Your ability to really see yourself can power you through.

  Jane Park

  Grateful, Believe, Worst Moments

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

  Ava DuVernay

  Important, Gone, Great Women

  Source: thesource.com

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• In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.

  Chris Alexander

  Country, Progress, Administration

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song in a specific time and place. Sometimes the new words and objects are too enjoyable and descriptive to ignore. And maybe making work that acknowledges that it won't last forever is important, too.

  John K. Samson

  Song, Ideas, Dating

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into right and left hemispheres, but the fact is that the two hemispheres of the brain do specialize in certain functions.

  Darold Treffert

  Two, Brain, Hemisphere

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part III:". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.

  Kylie Minogue

  Glasses, Advice, Insecurity

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

  Michelle Alexander

  United States, Littles, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.

  Michelle Alexander

  Prison Population, Failing, Reason

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

  Trevor Noah

  Race, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.

  Steve Erickson

  Way, These Days, Particular

  Source: therumpus.net

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