"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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"All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place."
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"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
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"I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now."
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"Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings."
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"When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence."
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"The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real."
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"Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships."
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"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
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"The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely."
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"We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner."
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"To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity."
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
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"The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality."
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"Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you."
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"The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)."
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"They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor."
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"Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly."
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"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it."
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"Popularity? It's glory's small change."
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