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• Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Giving, Alive, Lines

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• I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

  Felix Frankfurter

  School, Law, Titles

  "Of Law and Life & Other Things That Matter: Papers and Addresses of Felix Frankfurter, 1956-1963". Book edited by Philip B Kurland, February 5, 1965.

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• I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

  Unknown

  Brother, Thinking, Feelings

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• I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Guy, Foxholes

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• There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Long, Political

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.1394, Penguin

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• I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

  Muhammad Ali

  Teacher, Believe, School

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  "The Wisdom of Jean-Paul Sartre: A Selection".

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• All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

  Frank Herbert

  God, Science, Men

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.432, Penguin

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• Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Race, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

  David Gemmell

  Native American, People, Age

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• Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Teaching, Science

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• Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

  Cassandra Clare

  Be Kind, Sometimes, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.990, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, Numbers, Elements

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

  Julia Child

  Car, Tea, Done

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.76, Anchor

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• We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

  Booker T. Washington

  Intelligent, Hands, Ideas

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• It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Engineering, Finals, Steps

  "Falling Free". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1988.

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• Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Work, Should

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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Clothes

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• The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon
  valour.

  Livy

  Courage, Wells, Rely

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 14,

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• If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

  Agesilaus II

  Done, Monument, Statues

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• I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

  J. G. Holland

  Office, World, Wealth

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• The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Independent, Opportunity

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1851). “The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object”, p.59

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• It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Divorce, Married, Shut Up

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• Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

  Confucius

  Doe, Today, Treatment

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