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• I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

  Terri Windling

  Hate, Hats, Source

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• Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Promise, Made, Prove

  "De Officiis".

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• When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reality, Men, Appearance

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

  Mary Wesley

  Children, Animal, Cities

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• I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

  Carole King

  Taken, Creativity, Thinking

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• It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

  Jo Coudert

  Believe, Oil, Empathy

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse

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• If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

  Gautama Buddha

  Long, Four, Habit

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• I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Boredom, Effort, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.255, Harvard University Press

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• We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, People, Important

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• If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Confidence, Doubt, Divinity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

  Charles Schumer

  Passion, Law, People

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• What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.86, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

  Immanuel Kant

  Wisdom, Dignity, Granted

  Immanuel Kant, Lewis White Beck (1976). “Critique of practical reason, and other writings in moral philosophy”, Taylor & Francis

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Merit, Ass

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• No one is happy unless he respects himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Self Respect, Ethics

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• When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Trust, Party, People

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• ... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Leadership, Self, Demand

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• Many argue; not many converse.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Arguing, Converses

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• Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Life, Nature, Animal

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• As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

  Arthur Keith

  Faith, Learning, Knowledge

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• Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Men, Appreciate

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• Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect-not realizing that they have signaled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Moving, Space, People

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

  Felix Adler

  People, Tolerance, Principles

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• Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Bags, Paper, Want

  Wendy Wasserstein (1978). “Uncommon Women and Others”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

  Kate Smith

  Ideas, Composer, Ifs

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