"For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength."
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"There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants."
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"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."
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"I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity."
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"I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me."
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"You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together."
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"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
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"Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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"In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect."
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"The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people."
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"He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son."
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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
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"Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't quite world class but you're close. If you have all three, then you don't need to die; you're already in heaven."
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"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."
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"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."
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"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
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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."
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"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
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"Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully."
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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."
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