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  • Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection. -- Tariq Ramadan
  • Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. -- Laurens van der Post
  • What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too. -- William Cowper
  • The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. -- Stephen Covey
  • All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. -- Ashley Montagu
  • Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. -- Ronald Reagan
  • It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. -- Thomas Malthus
  • What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother. -- Liya Kebede
  • I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world. -- CeeLo Green
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -- Jane Austen
  • I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people. -- Corazon Aquino
  • Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. -- Andre Maurois
  • I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. -- Bruce Feirstein
  • The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work. -- James Levine
  • The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. -- Eamon de Valera
  • Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities. -- Lisa Randall
  • The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. -- Mercy Otis Warren
  • When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another. -- Jason Mraz
  • It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • Callista Gingrich has, I suspect, given Newt's advisers a giant headache. She's a constant presence at her husband's side - and a constant reminder of his acknowledged infidelity. Newt cheated on his second wife with Callista, a woman 23 years his junior. -- Patti Davis
  • Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. -- Ron Fournier
  • I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. -- Tony Abbott
  • Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. -- T. E. Lawrence
  • Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs. -- David Limbaugh
  • The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures. -- John O. Brennan
  • I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. -- Christian Bale
  • I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough. -- Rick Springfield
  • Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime. -- Bob Kane
  • Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. -- Steve Wozniak
  • The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged. -- Chantal Zabus
  • This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers. -- John Marshall
  • An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. -- Samuel Richardson
  • Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them. -- Confucius
  • I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. -- Maurice Sendak
  • They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves. -- John Adams
  • The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality. -- Dean Koontz
  • It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt. -- Donna Woolfolk Cross
  • One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence. -- Markus Zusak
  • For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way. -- Martha Ronk
  • Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged. -- Reuben Singh
  • People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action. -- Jay Abraham
  • Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument. -- Gerry Spence
  • I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays. -- Steve Wozniak
  • We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy. -- Frank Zappa
  • Guys want to be respected and acknowledged. They want to feel what they contributed matters. -- Charlie Sheen
  • Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered. -- Giovanni Ruffini
  • In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories -- Sol Stein
  • Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power. -- Will Durant
  • All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist. -- Adam Smith
  • I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years. -- Jimmy Nail
  • One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation. -- David Steindl-Rast
  • I have a lot of feeling for Ron Hubbard. His genius has not been sufficiently acknowledged. -- Werner Erhard
  • The purest definition of religious is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality. -- Darrell Calkins
  • No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison. -- Jesse Torrey
  • There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. -- Richard Linklater
  • Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated. -- Selwyn Hughes
  • I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you. -- Adam Braun
  • All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. -- Jeremy Bentham
  • Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus. -- Pope Francis
  • Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader. -- Richard Koch
  • You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. -- Jane Austen
  • I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. -- Kurt Weill
  • The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality -- Roger Caillois
  • The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone. -- Tony Buzan
  • Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • ... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor. -- Peter De Vries
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
  • Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets." -- Karen Marie Moning
  • Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. -- Satyajit Ray
  • I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist -- Choi Soo-young
  • It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride. -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
  • All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought. -- Kenneth L. Woodward
  • Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. -- Tina Brown
  • It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one. -- Romano Prodi
  • The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography. -- David Hockney
  • All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today. -- Emile Borel
  • Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? -- George Edward Woodberry
  • Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. -- Harsha Bhogle
  • True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. -- A. Powell Davies
  • To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me. -- Zoe Saldana
  • The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard. -- Ruth Minshull
  • The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair. -- Linda Sunshine
  • Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be. -- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. -- Helen Fielding
  • The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. -- Pierre Trudeau
  • It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. -- Franklin Pierce
  • For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling. -- Donnie Wahlberg
  • Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others. -- Margaret Oliphant
  • It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy. -- Sheila E.
  • I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws. -- Gary Sheffield
  • It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all. -- Connie Willis
  • I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children. -- Nadya Suleman
  • The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV. -- Tom Shales
  • It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city. -- Calvin Trillin
  • As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. -- Philip Pullman
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. -- Lauren Willig
  • Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. -- George Santayana
  • Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled. -- Ted Nelson
  • The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued. -- Jonas Salk
  • One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys. -- Andrew Marr
  • Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful. -- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all. -- Pete Seeger
  • The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time. -- Julian of Norwich
  • People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going. -- Jay Roach
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little -- Shannon Hale
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive. -- Alex Berenson
  • Lord Kane," the king acknowledged. "Before the proceedings begin, we must say how thrilled we were to meet your PMS." Uh..."My what?" "Your personal male secretary. -- Gena Showalter
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