"Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands."
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"Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination."
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"Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition."
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"Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves."
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"Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step."
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"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
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"The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about to killing or torture. It's to humiliate. So the oppressed feel degraded. And both the oppressed understand and the oppressors understand. It's constant."
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"When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth."
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"Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them."
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"Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world."
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"You might meet a guy who turns out to be the best guy you've worked with. They don't have to be some name brand person. I've met a lot of lower level actors and directors who were terrific; that are as good as any other A level director or actor, they just don't get the recognition. So I'm happy working with anybody who wants to show up to play the game and has a clue."
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"History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition."
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"There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time."
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"To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary."
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"Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist."
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"The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out."
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"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."
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"If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved."
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"In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess."
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