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• I think the US and Russia are mirroring each other and they have this love/hate relationship since the Cold War. You feel it when you go to Russia; they admire and hate the US at the same time, and here also there's this mistrust and it's always going to be there.

  Sophie Barthes

  Hate, War, Thinking

  "Oscar-nominated Actor Paul Giamatti and Director Sophie Barthes Try Saving Our Cold Souls". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.

  Barack Obama

  Persistence, Challenges, President

  "Mitt Romney and Barack Obama talk leadership in dueling 60 Minutes interviews". www.cbsnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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• It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Song, Years, Mixing

  Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2010.

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• It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Standards, Well Being, Raises

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Men, World, Earth

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.13

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• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  Freddie Mercury

  Reading, Writing, Light

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• If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Mirrors, Delight, Losing

  Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... I can see much to admire in all religions... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Thinking, Soul, Suffering

  Alfred Russel Wallace's letter to a relative, 1861.

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• People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

  Markus Zusak

  Couple, Heart, Men

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• We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.

  Bob Proctor

  Sports, Fall, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 05, 2011

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• What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

  Erik Naggum

  Successful, Unix, Horrible

  "Using Lisp to Call another program in linux?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 11, 2002.

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• I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

  Scott Kahn

  Honesty, Language, Paint

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• Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Character, Bird, Body

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• Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

  PZ Myers

  Art, Knives, Cabinets

  "Atheism ≠ Fascism". freethoughtblogs.com. June 12, 2011.

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• For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Men, He Man, Wit

  Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.217

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• Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Compassion, Wish, Remember

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• Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don't stop until you've filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don't need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends' accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspiration, Accomplishment, Envy

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• The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.

  J. C. Ryle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Order, Opposites, World

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• To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Art, Philosophy, Loss

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.58

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• When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Focus, Fans

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• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, People

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• Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

  George C. Lorimer

  Men, Atheism, Saint

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• In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.

  Carl Sagan

  Astrology, Atheism, Together

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.388, Ballantine Books

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• I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Love Is, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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