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• We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

  Roald Amundsen

  Gratitude, Grateful, Ice

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.15, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Art, Play, Games

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• Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

  Kirstie Alley

  Alcohol, Drug, Culture

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• I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

  Tia Carrere

  Attention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Character, Sublime

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• We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

  Anne Dudley

  Years, Ideas, Icons

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• I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

  Wilford Brimley

  Judging, People, Littles

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• I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

  Kathleen Turner

  Support Systems, Underestimate, Wonderful

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• Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

  William Shenstone

  Age, Magnificence, Mercenary

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.165

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• Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

  Horace

  Mean, Lost, Idle

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• Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

  Charles Stanley

  Love, Romantic, Romance

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• When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

  John Dryden

  Ideas, Views, Causes

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.312

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• It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

  Henry Fielding

  May, Wells, Company

  Henry Fielding (1811). “The History of Amelia”, p.113

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Law, Two

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• Bad artists always admire each others work.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Artist, Admire

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

  Edmund Burke

  Differences, Sublime, And Love

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.118

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  Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Two, Awe And Wonder

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Might, Innocence, Found

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

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• Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Mind, Weak

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Feelings

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• Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

  Larry Winget

  Motivational, Trust, Time

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.211, Penguin

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• Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

  Margaret Floy Washburn

  Psychology, Mind, World

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• There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Unique, Individuality, Admiration And Respect

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