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“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise”
Norwegian Proverb
“What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.”
Chinua Achebe
“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”
Walter Gropius
“After The Matrix, I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.”
Carrie-Anne Moss
“The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.”
Louis Kronenberger
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”
Russell Baker
“Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.”
William Arthur Ward
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.”
Pope Benedict XVI
“He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.”
Frantz Fanon