...and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to... Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpne...ss of vision, which may be better understood by the term sprightliness of imagination, which has enabled them to discern, or at least to recognize those smaller springs of action that regulate the conduct of mankind, which, from their supposed insignificancy, have escaped the grosser sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is not ...acknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked..., their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upon... their dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans..., and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and t...o treat all others with indignation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Europe, a man of genius is almost privileged. If he be a poet or an artist, allowances are made for the extravagance of his fan...cy, or the peculiarity of his appetites. If he be a statesman, his individual wanderings are forgotten for the general good he bestows on the nation; if he be a soldier, the wounds he may inflict on virtue and unguarded innocence are pardoned for the sake of those he may have received in defending his country; and even the clergy have their offenses excused, in consideration of the morals which they promote by their spiritual functions. No such compensation takes place in the United States. Private virtue overtops the highest qualifications of the mind, and is indispensable to the progress even of the most acknowledged talents. This, in many instances, clips the wings of genius, by substituting a decent mediocrity in the place of brilliant but vicious talents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to re...ason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »