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• I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

  Robert M. Gates

  Trying, Ifs, Disagree

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• I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

  Tim Cahill

  Adventure, People, Movement

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• We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

  Alan Lightman

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

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• Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath - though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect - very diligent in her studies, respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.

  Martha Finley

  Sweet, Children, Mean

  "Elsie Dinsmore".

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• Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Religious, Self Esteem, Communication

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• I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

  Dreama Walker

  Girl, Badass, Selfish

  "Dreama Walker's Ultimate Middle School Revenge" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. April 10, 2012.

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• In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

  David Amram

  Atmosphere, Church, Musician

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• The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right.

  Confucius

  Caring, Thinking, Gentleman

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• We say that the faces of coming generations are looking up from the earth. So when you put your feet down, you put them down very carefully - because there are generations coming one after the other. If you think in these terms, then you'll walk a lot more carefully, be more respectful of this earth.

  Oren Lyons

  Thinking, Feet, Faces

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• Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.

  Marilou Awiakta

  Mother, Hands, Law

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• Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Ideas

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• Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

  Claudia Christian

  Nerd, Sci Fi, Honorable

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• Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.

  Norman Corwin

  Photography, Art, Distance

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• I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, Giving Up, Memories

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs.

  Susun Weed

  Wise, Children, Pregnancy

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• I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

  Charlaine Harris

  Romance, Lovers, Eric Northman

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.734, Penguin

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• I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Thinking, Keys

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• These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Wise, Book, Hands

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• When we come to worship the God and Father of us all and to partake of the sacrament symbolizing the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we should be as comely and respectful, as dignified and appropriate as we can be. We should be recognizable in appearance as well as in behavior that we truly are disciples of Christ.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Father, Worship

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• Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Love Is, Long

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.909, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Love Is, Long, Enduring Love

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.909, Scholastic Inc.

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• The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government’s seal of approval on that, they’ll take it. But if you can’t, well, they’ll take that too.

  Matt Taibbi

  Mistake, Thinking, Government

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.205, Spiegel & Grau

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• People are pretty respectful for the most part.

  Leighton Meester

  People

  "The Backstory | Leighton Meester". Interview with Horacio Silva, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Parent, Tone

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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