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And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and str...

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We can't pack down hurt, nor can we off-load it to someone else while maintaining our authenticity a...

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This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and...

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The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around ...

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Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the f...

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Carlos FuentesTodas las familias felices

to whom it may concern: please phone me for appointments when you want to see me. I will not answer ...

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Charles BukowskiTales of Ordinary Madness

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of ...

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Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, ...

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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...

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People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality...

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About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

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Christopher HitchensThe Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was dis...

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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not...

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Respect yourself and others will respect you.

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ConfuciusSayings of Confucius

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff D...

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Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these thing...

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Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

What I am doing is not giving religion respect that it wants but it doesn't deserve. I respect peopl...

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All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of ...

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Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important an...

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A good general rule is that one should seek to be loved by one’s peers—one’s spouse and one’s friend...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

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Diane AckermanThe Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord wh...

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While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect a...

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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes th...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a res...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittak...

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Elizabeth GilbertThe Signature of All Things

But he could never be a made guy himself because of his tainted blood, some Sunset Park Puerto Rican...

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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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