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• Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Law, Unity

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• One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

  Tory Burch

  Giving, Shining, Talent

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• For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.

  Saint Patrick

  Heaven, Way, Wonder

  The Confession, c. 452.

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• Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

  Deborah

  Want, Changing Your Life, Starting

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• Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents -- trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains -- and surrendering all hold on the familiar act you call 'me'.

  David Deida

  Pain, Mean, Giving

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• Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth.

  Marie Forleo

  Mean, World, Have Faith

  FaceBook post by Marie Forleo from Jan 11, 2015

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• Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

  Bill Richardson

  Mother Daughter, Men, Issues

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• Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

  Albert Einstein

  Knowing, Perspective, Balance

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• People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

  Hugo Weaving

  People, Streets

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• The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

  Frank Ocean

  Ideas, Way, Versatile

  "Frank Ocean Wants To Explore Life Beyond Music And Channel Orange" by Georgette Pierre, www.mtv.com. December 17, 2012.

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• We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

  Joss Whedon

  Hero, Needs

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• The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Ideas, Next, Sometimes

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Past, Miracle

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.180, New World Library

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• The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.

  Walter Weyl

  Brother, Government, Moral Judgement

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• Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.

  Paul Ekman

  Communication, Emotional, Feelings

  Paul Ekman (2015). “Odhalené emoce: Naučte se rozpoznávat výrazy tváře a pocity druhých”, p.1, Jan Melvil Publishing

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• Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that both sides - gay couples and religious objectors - have rights and that reasonable accommodation is possible only when both sides have something to gain.

  David Blankenhorn

  Religious, Couple, Gay

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• There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

  Marcel Proust

  Vices, Assuming, Virtue

  Marcel Proust, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way”, Vintage

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• Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.

  Steve Pavlina

  Motivation, Secret, Action

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• In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

  Benji Durden

  Training, Eccentric, Way

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

  Richard Lamm

  Justice, Generations, Tradition

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• We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Honesty, Teaching, Ku Klux Klan

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• Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

  Greg Brown

  Teamwork, Ambition, Incentives

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• We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when you’re processing with your brain, you’re broadcasting fields.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Touching, Brain, Mind

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