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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Eye, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Humor, Vaccines

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• A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

  Franz Liszt

  Theatre, Firsts, Initiative

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• Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Path, Consciousness

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• Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

  Audre Lorde

  Erotic, Steps, Consciousness

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• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Believe, Doors, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 13, 2015

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• The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

  Helen Mirren

  Spy, Needs, Roles

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• I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

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• A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, People, Appreciate

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• Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Faces, Different

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• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Cousin, Brother

  News Conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  Jane Pauley

  Nbc, People, Gardening

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Doors, Pie

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• Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

  Jean Rostand

  Greatness, Order, Gains

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

  Kevin Rudd

  Moving, Firsts, Constitution

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

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• Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Nasty, Eating

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.48, MIT Press

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• But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Patterns, Method

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.115, Henry Holt and Company

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• I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

  Grace Slick

  People, Trying, Levels

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• See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

  Wole Soyinka

  Strong, Men, World

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• The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mind, Glimpse, Gone

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

  Paul Weller

  Player, Guitar, Good Things

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• Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

  Paul Wellstone

  Successful, People, Vision

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• I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

  Ron White

  Comedian, Peers

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