"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."
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"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."
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"Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life."
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"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences."
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"I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself ."
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"Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind."
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"Self-respect knows no considerations."
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"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold."
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"While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit."
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"In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect."
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"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
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"I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity."
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"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
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"Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."
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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
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"Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect."
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"Awe and respect are two different things."
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"If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength."
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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
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"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
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