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The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' lic...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexp...

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There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by ha...

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I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recog...

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I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though ...

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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

She smiled at me with such merriment of recognition, and such a yearning to be recognised in return,...

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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the othe...

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[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

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

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we of...

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If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

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Guy KawasakiEnchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recogn...

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Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions o...

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

Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, becaus...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

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Maggie StiefvaterLament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? Bu...

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