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• A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

  Annie Besant

  Religious, Growth, India

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition.

  Lewis Black

  Nice, Guy, Lucky

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• Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Function

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.36, Bantam

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• Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Money, Party, Simple

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• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

  Jim Carrey

  Careers, Long, Appreciate

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• If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

  Benjamin Carson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

  Chuck Close

  Portraits, Firsts, Disability

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• Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

  Bette Davis

  Appreciation, Stars, Today

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

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• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

  Jefferson Davis

  Together, Slavery, Unions

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• Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, News, Stories

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• Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

  Phil Donahue

  Cheating, Men, Innocent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Sadness, Fate, Destiny

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• Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

  Jan Egeland

  Agency, Years, Great Work

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

  Friedrich Engels

  Freedom

  Friedrich Engels (2009). “Landmarks of Scientific Socialism: Anti-Duehring”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Years, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Teaching, Writing

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Law, Unions

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• To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Movie, Actors, Process

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• Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Acceptance, Creating, Peers

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• There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

  Henry James

  Two, Taste, Emotion

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12847, Delphi Classics

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• The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

  Michio Kaku

  Jobs, Garden, Blue

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• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  Immanuel Kant

  Religious, Philosophical, Divine

  Immanuel Kant, Allen Wood, George Di Giovanni (1998). “Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  Barbara Kruger

  Thinking, Understanding, Feelings

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• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Successful, Peers, Patterns

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.100, Penguin

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