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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

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had m...

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You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt...

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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this re...

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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Sol...

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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive ro...

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How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On th...

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Zig ZiglarGreat Quotes from Zig Ziglar: 250 Inspiring Quotes from the Master Motivator and Friends

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at...

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It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect...

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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the universit...

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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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Albert EinsteinEinstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Be...

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Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

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Women are the nourishing power of the Universe. Whoever has deep respect for women of the world, wil...

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Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest t...

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Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.

Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.

The path of nonviolence is the path of respect. It is respect towards every being. It is the path of...

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Do not be victim of life-negative religions. Be respectful to life, love and beauty.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Renunciation is dropping the fear, anger, respect, and disrespect but continuously radiating uncondi...

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by mo...

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AristotleThe Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

He said that he was sorry but Robert Bey had called and told him i was no longer in the party. I was...

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Assata ShakurAssata: An Autobiography

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...

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It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was yo...

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Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the an...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through ac...

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Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or c...

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Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect does...

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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