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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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ties, Tree, Humanity

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.115

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• What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.86, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Merit, Ass

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Trust, Party, People

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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.

  Carole King

  Taken, Creativity, Thinking

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• To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Teaching, Littles, Today

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• I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

  Mary Wesley

  Children, Animal, Cities

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• I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

  Terri Windling

  Hate, Hats, Source

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• If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

  Gautama Buddha

  Long, Four, Habit

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• No one is happy unless he respects himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Self Respect, Ethics

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• Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Life, Nature, Animal

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• Many argue; not many converse.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Arguing, Converses

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• Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Promise, Made, Prove

  "De Officiis".

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• ... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Leadership, Self, Demand

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• We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, People, Important

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• It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

  Jo Coudert

  Believe, Oil, Empathy

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse

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• Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Divinity, Shame, Reason

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical writings”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

  Charles Schumer

  Passion, Law, People

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• If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Confidence, Doubt, Divinity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

  Immanuel Kant

  Wisdom, Dignity, Granted

  Immanuel Kant, Lewis White Beck (1976). “Critique of practical reason, and other writings in moral philosophy”, Taylor & Francis

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• Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Men, Appreciate

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• Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect-not realizing that they have signaled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Moving, Space, People

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Conceited, Men, Self

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.245

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• Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Passion, Views

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1856). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

  Clint Eastwood

  No Respect, Young

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