"Treat the world the way you want to be treated."
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"What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated."
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"If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
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"Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues."
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"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."
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"Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith."
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"My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much."
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"The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else."
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"I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more."
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"A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man."
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"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all."
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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
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"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures."
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"We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity."
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"The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect."
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"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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