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“ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others” Veronica Roth, Divergent
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
“when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The unrecognized genius-that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“For as a rule a man must have worth in himself in order to recognise it and believe in it willingly and freely in others.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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