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• Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

  Jasper Fforde

  Excuse, Used, Should

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Silly, Olives, Anna

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• Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

  David Klass

  Lonely, Fighting, Goes On

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.216, Macmillan

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• Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

  Noam Chomsky

  May, Easy, Courses

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.67, City Lights Books

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• Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

  Patricia Briggs

  Giving Up, Men, Choices

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• Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Kings, Father

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1691, Bantam

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• The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.

  Catherine Ponder

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!

  Kerstin Gier

  Girl, Mean, Heirs

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.15, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

  Ann Patchett

  Doe, Half, Sometimes

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.284, A&C Black

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• There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

  J. G. Holland

  Courage, Fighting, Blow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 166, 1895.

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• Compromise is an honorable word.

  John Dingell

  Compromise

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• The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, War, Patriotic

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• The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Passion

  "The Cost of America's Secret Wars, Then and Now" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Honor, Assuming

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• Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

  Zhuge Liang

  Distance, Flower, People

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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• Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Teacher, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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• We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use.

  Jacob Zuma

  Marijuana, Use, Medical

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• The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspirational, Life, Community

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• Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Yield, Climbing

  "Keys to Success".

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• War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

  Charles Sumner

  Crush, War, Men

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• Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Looks

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• It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Latin

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• The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Simple

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