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"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality." »Ashely Montagu
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces." »Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
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"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, Pride and Prejudice
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"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." »Andr Maurois
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"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed." »Seneca
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"If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world." »Arlene Raven
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)
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"...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way." »Imgard Schloegl
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"You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjold
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