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Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayna	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 15 years ago
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. – Henri Cartier-Bresson	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Recognition is the greatest motivator. – Gerard C. Eakedale	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. – Ayn Rand	added by anonymous 15 years ago
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. – W. Edwards Deming	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. – Seneca	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open. – Clive	added by anonymous 15 years ago
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. – Dennis McKinsey	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. – Theodore Isaac Rubin	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. – Alvin Toffler	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – Alfred North Whitehead	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. – Barbara Schapiro	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 15 years ago

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