Respect Quotes - Page 20

• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  Dan Glickman

  Player, Rights, Intellectual

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• Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Want

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.121, Random House

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• I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

  Dave Barry

  Funny Inspirational, Party, Book

  "Is Findlay’s water safe?". "The Courier" Interview, thecourier.com. February 15, 2016.

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• We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Way, Thick

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Desire, Liberty

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• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Sue Wicks

  Team, Believe, Play

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• It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

  Tina Weymouth

  World, Talent, Pleasure

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• If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Courage, Adversity, Humanity

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• At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

  Wietse Venema

  Years, Two, Roots

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• Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

  Mike McCready

  Band, Littles, Lips

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• And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

  Margaret Spellings

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

  Roger Brooke Taney

  Men, Rights, White Man

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• Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Brother

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• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  Vera Wang

  Daughter, Mother, Artist

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• Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

  Rebecca West

  Earth, Likes, Salt

  Rebecca West (1977). “Rebecca West, a celebration”, Viking Adult

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• If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

  Wil Wheaton

  Gun, America, People

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

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• I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

  Eli Whitney

  Rights, Should Have, Difficulty

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• I respect a woman too much to marry her.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Marriage, Too Much, Marry Me

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• I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Past, Republican

  "Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

  Elvis Presley

  Hater, Animal, Compassion

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• Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

  Dick Gregory

  Confused, Rights, People

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• Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self, Sobriety, Society

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• We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

  Charles M. Vest

  Military, Long, Proud

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• Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

  Juan Somavia

  People, Dignity, Decent Work

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• Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Real, Responsibility, Race

  "Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer (1923), translated by C. T. Campion, 1949.

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