It is too much to ask that we embrace our changing faces — that we celebrate our mother's beauty in our own graying hair, that we remember the joy that created those laugh lines, that we recognize our father's forehead in the way ours wrinkles when we are perplexed, or we catch a glimpse of our aunt's eyes when our own crinkle with delight.
If we recognize our dependence on foreign oil as a critical factor in this crisis, a practical response becomes clear.
We recognize our own self-loathing, but slung even lower, so it's armless-legless with self-pity.
"We recognize our obligation in this area, and we will continue to review how we can improve our efforts to provide due process and reasonable accommodation".
"We recognize our responsibility as a company is not just what we can do, but what people can do," Ms. Cea said.
"We share concern about issues in the supply chain and at Dell, we recognize our responsibility, as a global citizen, to build a responsible supply chain," the company continued.
"We recognize our international obligations toward refugees and we would say that we treat each case fairly and impartially with regard to these obligations and with regard to the facts of each case," said a Home Office spokesman, asking that his name not be used in accordance with general government practice here.
"The industry needs to emphasize honesty and integrity as a part of its fundamental obligations, to say 'We recognize our obligations to shareholders, and those include an obligation to be honest and act with integrity in all of our ways.' And that, in individual cases, would result in very strong compliance programs and efforts to advertise them.
We recognize our own mortality, and are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame – but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in bettering the lives of others.
At a City Center studio presentation exploring Mr. Taylor's career, Damian Woetzel, the former City Ballet principal who is now a dance presenter, used a quotation by Emerson in explaining the choreography's appeal: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts".
This pitfall is easier to avoid when we recognize our own mixed characters and flaws.
