"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
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"As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."
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"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."
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"Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there."
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"Many argue; not many converse."
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"I deserve to have boundaries, and my boundaries are respected. I love and honor myself. I am safe. All is well."
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"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
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"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
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"We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."
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"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."
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"It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves"
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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."
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"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."
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"Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something."
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"The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved."
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"Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them."
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"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done."
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"You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care"
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"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."
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"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations."
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