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«People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.»
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
(Activist, Buddhist Leader)
| About:
Culture,
Friends,
People
| Keywords:
cultures, honoring, respecting, richness, Traditions
«No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.»
Author: David Copperfield
(Illusionist)
| About:
Homosexuality,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
clothing, gay, No self, respecting, self-respecting
«I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority»
Author: E. B. White
| About:
Future,
Nature
| Keywords:
Bright Future, optimistic, outwit, proving, respecting, seniority, sweetness, tasting
«The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
capacity, extent, neighbor, of his own, respecting, self-respecting, shortcoming, shortcomings, the self, tolerant
«The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
arbitrary, enlightened, imperceptibly, lull, lulled, lulling, lulls, respecting, serving, successor, surest
«MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
An Ancient, art museums, attest, attested, attesting, attests, Brune, come in handy, distil, distinguish, Egyptian, engaged, exhibit, flock, formerly, gratifying, grind, levity, modern medicine, money supply, mummies, mummy, physic, pigment, pigments, plunder, respecting, respect for the dead, rhyme, shrunken, sinner, supplying, The Limit, The Mummy, tomb
«No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.»
«The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
conceited, overweening, relieves, respecting
«The leader is very meticulous and is disciplined. Such a person is definitely worth respecting and praising. All should therefore lead a balanced and disciplined life. »
«I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pr»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
contemplate, establishment, Establishment of religion, respecting
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