Nicolas Malebranche Quotes
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
Nicolas Malebranche
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
A.J. Styles
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham Lincoln
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
Gary Numan
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
Olivia Cooke
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.
Frances Burney
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
Jack Prelutsky
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
Campbell Scott
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
Wale
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If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
Dale Murphy
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
Tasha Smith
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For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
Karl Lehmann
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
Yoko Ono
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This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
Albert Einstein
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And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin
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I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
Don Novello
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The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.
Barack Obama
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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
Nicolas Malebranche
