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• Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Looks, Littles

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Military, Safety, Empathy

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• The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Teacher, Wool

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• People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Gratitude, Hands, People

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". The New York Times Magazine, p.52, April 25, 1971.

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• People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

  Kate Millett

  People, Way, Helping

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• Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

  Luce Irigaray

  Tolerance, Desire, Doe

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

  Robert Stack

  Artist, Chef

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• Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Spiritual, Confused, Profound

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• Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Rights, Giving, Feminist

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

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• Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Peace, Native American, People

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• The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Men, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.582, e-artnow

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• Above all, do not lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Occupy Yourself, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

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• There is no trust more sacred than the
  one the world holds with children.

  Kofi Annan

  Peace, Children, No Trust

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2017

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• The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Heart, Self

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• What is the quality of your intent?

  Thurgood Marshall

  Quality, Intention, Shattering

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• Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Should, I Respect You

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• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Independent, Self, Independence

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Skin Color, Looks

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

  Laini Taylor

  Peace, War, Healing

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• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Life, Leadership

  Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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• As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

  Harper Lee

  Black And White, Men, Tkam

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

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• There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Justice, Activist

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• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  Barbara Boxer

  Military, Believe, Winning

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• All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

  Sean Covey

  Past, Two, People

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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