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• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

  Edward Gibbon

  Respect, Life And Love, Mistake

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• Radley rolled his eyes. He actually rolled his eyes at my father. Alpha of the south-central territory and head of the Territorial Council. Sure, I did that all the time but I'd also peed on his lap when I was two. No one else got away with such disrespect toward an Alpha, which meant Radley either didn't know who my father was, or didn't care

  Rachel Vincent

  Father, Eye, Two

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.139, MIRA

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• My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

  Michael Reagan

  Father, Ties, Office

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

  William Butler Yeats

  Past, Catholic, Church

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• I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

  Chad Hugo

  America, Trying, Asian

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• If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

  Steve Coogan

  Character, Play, Laughing

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

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• I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.

  Chris Rock

  Mean

  Source: uk.complex.com

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• I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Titles, Crowns, England

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• No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.

  Ray Emery

  Flags, Knows

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• When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Persons

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• No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Dog, Flower

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Jacob's Room”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Contempt mates well with pity.

  Gloria Naylor

  Pity, Mates, Contempt

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Linden Hills: A Novel”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.

  Lawrence Hill

  Papa, Legs, Moments

  Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Persons

  Mark Twain (2011). “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger”, p.168, Univ of California Press

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• No one to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing to disrespect because there is nothing other than you.

  Amit Ray

  Blame

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.44, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Past, World

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• Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Triumph, Way, Calumny

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• The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

  Joni Mitchell

  Pain, Hippie, Men

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• We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Generosity, Hatred

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• There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.

  Jane Jacobs

  Nature, Ideas, Champion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.445, Vintage

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• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Hate, Real, Arrows

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• No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the where's he gone again?

  Steve Bruce

  Football, Country, Gone

  "Mancini asks 'Garry who?' as Cook leaves City, plus 'win an Everton directors' experience'". www.mirror.co.uk. September 11, 2011.

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• Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

  George Crabbe

  Want, Spirit, Breeding

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• My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Mean, Simple, Guy

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• You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

  Hope Solo

  People, Speak, Shows

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