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• The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hard Work, Enemy, Devil

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

  Doug Stanhope

  Men, Ease, Courtesy

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• Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

  Jean Paul

  Responsibility, Roots, Tolerance

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• We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Nature, Smart

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

  Annie Gottlieb

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Kindness, Character, Caring

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  The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Success, Witty

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• Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Looks, Littles

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

  Robert Stack

  Artist, Chef

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• What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it &#Array; so we can help prevent it.

  Bryan Singer

  Mean, Evil, Understanding

  "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer". www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.

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• We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

  Angelo Scola

  Objectivity, Law, People

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• Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Speak, Silent, Should

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• When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Should, Feels, Asks

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• Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Spiritual, Confused, Profound

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• letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

  Luce Irigaray

  Acceptance, Important, Tradition

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

  Luce Irigaray

  Tolerance, Desire, Doe

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Humility, Imagination, Empathy

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• People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

  Kate Millett

  People, Way, Helping

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• the more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Winning

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• disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

  Charlotte Armstrong

  Horse, Kings, Way

  Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.110, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hands, People, Sticks

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “The Complete Lewis Carroll Collection (Illustrated)”, p.389, Tyché

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• [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

  John Gunther

  New York, Cities, Chicago

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• Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Machines, Easy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.46, Routledge

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• My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

  Karl Kraus

  Dimensions, Size, Assuming

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Unpaid work never commands respect.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Work, Wages, Command

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