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Well, young man, have you found anyone worthy of your respect?"Artemis smiled back. "Yes," he said. ...

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Eoin ColferThe Arctic Incident

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t dist...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldTender is the Night & The Last Tycoon

He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife part...

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I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in lov...

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Frank O'HaraMeditations in an Emergency

We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of...

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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and ...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly ...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

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Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant h...

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Geoff DyerAnother Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is ...

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, ...

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That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean...

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George MacDonaldThe Princess and the Goblin

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime r...

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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying ...

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Gerry SpenceGive Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

The more surely you rear your children in the ways of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with love and high...

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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H. L. MenckenThe Artist: A Drama Without Words

Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch...

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As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear word...

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A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colo...

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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta...

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We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; i...

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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think i...

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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every g...

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Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: t...

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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have en...

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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegeta...

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...

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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age....

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You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human bein...

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—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Step...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something lar...

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, n...

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He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which ...

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When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behi...

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... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, ...

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A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they we...

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I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making...

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What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i...

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We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts ...

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Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and ...

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Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order ...

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One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to ...

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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a wh...

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And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship poss...

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What do you think dignity's all about?'The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by...

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you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, t...

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Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothi...

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No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up th...

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Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember R...

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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at th...

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When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...

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Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without som...

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Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritua...

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Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

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Marquis de SadeGothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who wi...

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In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as...

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of a...

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Max PlanckThe Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people h...

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I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor an...

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A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...

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After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this ...

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Milan KunderaTestaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders s...

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A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help...

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Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, be...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned...

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He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with ...

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There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, tr...

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Loyalty, love and respect perhaps have never been expounded with such agility like this one ‘Loyalty...

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Paulo CoelhoManuscript Found in Accra

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the l...

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Peggy NoonanPatriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that...

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I can give not what men call love;But wilt thou accept notThe worship the heart lifts aboveAnd the h...

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Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...

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