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• It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Fall, People, Enchantment

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, Individual, Relation

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.412, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Maturity, Emotional

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• I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Keys, Goal

  "America's Best Leaders: Benjamin Carson, Surgeon and Children's Advocate". Interview with Avery Comarow, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

  Chuck Close

  Faces, Hopeless, Mets

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Character, Balance, Trying

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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• One of the biggest problems with having a dream come true is recognizing it when it arrives.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Dream, Problem, Dreams Come True

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• Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

  Huda Sha'arawi

  Women, Words Of Wisdom, Pedestal

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• Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.

  Peter Ginter

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Organization

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• I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

  Drew Barrymore

  Spiritual, Personality, Lovely

  "Why Drew Kicks Butt". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 16, 2003.

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• Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can a mere financial crisis compare to that? The Generative Mystery cannot go bankrupt. It is not subject to scarcity. We never run out of God.

  David Spangler

  Love, Running, Creativity

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• How does Parker’s body compare with yours ” Great. A pop quiz I thought recognizing his transition into lecture mode. “How does Parker’s body compare with mine Hmm.” I gave Parker a quick theatrical once-over and he smiled clearly catching on to my line of thought. “Nice legs and killer biceps. But I have better boobs. No question.

  Rachel Vincent

  Nice, Catching On, Transition

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• Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Seeing, Ifs

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• Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• Winston Gallagher!" I said, recognizing the first ghost I'de met. Then my eyes narrowed & I covered my hand in front of my crotch as I saw Winstons gaze fasten there next. "Don't even think about poltergeisting my panties again". "This is the sod? Come here you scurvy little--" "Bones don't!" I interrupted. He stopped, giving a last glare to him while mouthing YOU. ME. EXORCIST. before returning to my side.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Mean, Offers

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.92, Penguin

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• In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Quality, Vexation

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

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• We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.

  Megan Martha White

  People, World, Littles

  "The White Stripes: Getting to Know the Most Interesting Band in Music Today". Interview with Jim Jarmusch, www.whitestripes.net. 2003.

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• There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Self, Pieces

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• What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Good Luck, Opportunity, Creating

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• To get kids involved in meal planning and preparation, create games out of trying new foods, and provide ample opportunities for physical activity, recognizing it may take some time to find an activity they truly enjoy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Opportunity, Games

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• By judging differently and by recognizing their female experiences and bringing them to bear on the Supreme Court's decision, Ginsburg and O'Connor both made it legitimate for people to be different.

  Linda Hirshman

  People, Judging, Decision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Dignity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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