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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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Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash you...

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Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their ow...

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We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of co...

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There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is ...

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I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your ...

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Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of...

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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in...

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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of...

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Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is wor...

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We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing ...

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Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing ...

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Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing ...

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Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing ...

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My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recogniz...

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Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so lit...

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Oh, no, no, you've got that all wrong. You're not required to respect elders. After all, most people...

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Sherman AlexieThe Toughest Indian in the World

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having...

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In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as i...

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There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from ...

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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a lit...

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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fi...

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Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind,...

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I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common ...

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Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of wa...

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Kill if you will, but command me nothing!’ the gunslinger roared. ‘You have forgotten the faces of t...

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There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless ...

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I knew it!" he cried, jubilant. "I thought 'twas you, but there's more of you now. You should've see...

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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don...

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Tom WolfeI am Charlotte Simmons

Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom...

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Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the ...

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

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I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and wome...

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Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to r...

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I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.

And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling g...

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It's to have people see her instead of her condition. That's all that anybody with a disability want...

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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry