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• We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

  Lawrence Summers

  Support, Effort, Needs

  "China trade vote a key test, says Summers". The Straits Times, February 01, 2000.

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• What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.

  Jamake Highwater

  Adventure, Glasses, Self

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• The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Men, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.84, Oscar Wilde

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• Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed.  All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.

  Adolf Hitler

  Common Purpose, Social, Employers

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• National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe.  The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Simple, Europe

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• It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.

  Paul Foster Case

  Teaching, Roots, Light

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• Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

  Rahul Dravid

  Skills, Important, Helping

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• To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.

  Jacques-Alain Miller

  Love You, Missing, Needs

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• There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Humble, Skills, Economist

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 4, 1958.

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• In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

  Michelle Ryan

  People, Bother, Ifs

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• Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

  Alexander O'Neal

  Everyday, Being The Best, Strive

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• We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Mean, Profound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.248, St. Martin's Press

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• You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

  James Fox

  Self, Giving, Thank God

  James Fox (2012). “White Mischief”, p.195, Random House

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• You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Artist, Thinking, Narcissistic

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Leadership, Men, Vision

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon (2005). “The Story of Mankind”, p.465, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind. Don't let anyone make you so upset that you become someone you don't even recognise.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Heart, Mean

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• I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

  Bonnie Wright

  Shopping, Scary, Persons

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• It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Affinity, Certain, One Thing

  "Dustin Hoffman and me" by John Burnham Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Reading, Musician, Bars

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• I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

  Bonnie Wright

  People, Walks, Streets

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• Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre?
  As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Thinking, Long, Phenomenal

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.52, Sentient Publications

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• I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on its head and I can't walk down the street unless I'm wearing dark sunglasses and a ninja kit.

  Skandar Keynes

  Home, Dark, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

  Peter Singer

  Knowing, Needs, World

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

  James Caan

  Things In Life, Appreciate, Littles

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