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• By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Stronger, Privilege

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• From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

  Paul Tsongas

  Strong Women, Military, School

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• The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

  Daniel Webster

  Law, Honor, May

  Speech at Charleston Bar Dinner, Charleston, S.C., 10 May 1847

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• The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stress, Integrity, Divorce

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony

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• Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

  Judith Wright

  Emotional, Expression, Feelings

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• God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Queens, Home, May

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• I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Husband, Equal Pay, Names

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• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Family, Crazy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want to say, "No! That's not my America, not the America I know." I'm honored - it's just not me. But as we were saying before, the artist loses control.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

  Eva Longoria

  President, Campaigns, Election

  Eva Longoria DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.

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• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Humor, Government

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Song, Artist, Voice

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• The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Desert, Driven

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• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

  William Cobbett

  Gambling, Names, Evil

  "Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (Letter 2)". Book by William Cobbett, 1829.

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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Genius, Literature, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.123

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• The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• ...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.

  Thomas Hardy

  Distance, Hands, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (1995). “Thomas Hardy: Three Great Novels”, JG Press

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• A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

  Kesha

  Thinking, Clothes, Teeth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Tasks, Lasts

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  Harry Browne

  Judging, Trials, Assumption

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• Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Men, Honor

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.111, Vintage

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• A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

  George Muller

  Mean Girls, Servant Of God, World

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• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  Yoko Ono

  Powerful, Animal, Dragons

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• Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

  Robert Orben

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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• I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.

  Bonnie Raitt

  School, Guitar, People

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