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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that."

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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?"

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Adam Rich Actor
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"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."

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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Whoever acts with respect will get respect."

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
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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."

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Florence King Author
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"Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love."

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