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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
– Max Nordau
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For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
– Robert Parker
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If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.
– Richard Petty
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What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
– Susan Powter
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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. I missed out coming and going.
– J. B. Priestley
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Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.
– Lou Diamond Phillips
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
– John B. Priestly
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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
– Dan Quayle
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Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
– Joan Rivers
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
– Jackie Robinson
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We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
– Mitt Romney
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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
– Andy Rooney
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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
– Jean Rostand
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
– Bertrand Russell
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
– Tecumseh
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
– Henry David Thoreau
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I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
– Shania Twain
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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals love them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
– Edwin Way Teale
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
– U. Thant
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Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
– Thucydides
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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
– John Updike
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
– Simone Weil
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
– Orson Welles
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
– Eudora Welty
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
– John Lennon
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
– Jane Addams
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
– Charles Baudelaire
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
– William J. H. Boetcker
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
– Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
– Malcolm X
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Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
– Jay Kay
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You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.
– Dave Eggers
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You totally value and respect your body as you get older.
– Jenny McCarthy
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You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
– Lucy Liu
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You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.
– Luke Scott
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You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.
– Michael Nutter
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
– Olympia Dukakis
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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
– Mary J. Blige
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You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.
– Christopher Meloni
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You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.
– Luke Scott
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You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.
– Gary Ross
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You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.
– Amber Heard
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You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
– Shia LaBeouf
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You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
– Steffi Graf
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You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.
– K. Eric Drexler
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Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.
– Shahrukh Khan
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Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
– Mark Haddon
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Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
– John Barton
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
– Honore de Balzac
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
– Brian Ferneyhough
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With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.
– Martin Van Buren
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With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
– Roger Mahony
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With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.
– Artur Davis
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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
– Ani Difranco
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Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
– Robert Casey
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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
– Marguerite Gardiner
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While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.
– Craig Kelly
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Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
– Alice Miller
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
– George Bancroft
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Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
– William Hague
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Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.
– Patti LaBelle
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
– The Dalai Lama
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When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
– LeBron James
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When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.
– Robert Griffin III
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When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
– Rene Redzepi
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
– Mark Twain
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When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.
– Tavis Smiley
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
– Taylor Swift
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When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
– David Steinberg
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When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
– Brian Ferneyhough
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When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
– Loretta Lynn
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
– Ed Westwick
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
– Louis Pasteur
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When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
– Herodotus
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
– Ausonius
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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 - so we can help prevent it.
– Bryan Singer
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
– Yoko Ono
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What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.
– George Carey
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What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
– Hugh Jackman
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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
– Maurice Sendak
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What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.
– Alexis Arguello
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
– Criss Angel
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
– LaToya London
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Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '
– Gina Carano
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We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
– Radha Mitchell
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
– Neil Patrick Harris
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We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
– Charles Vest
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We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
– Helmut Kohl
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We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
– Zinedine Zidane
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We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
– Christopher Meloni
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
– Zack Snyder
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We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.
– Li Peng
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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
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We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
– Theodore C. Sorensen
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