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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So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
Rachel True
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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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Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
Ban Ki-moon
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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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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
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I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
Jason Alexander
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I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.
Karin Slaughter
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To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.
John Quincy Adams
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Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...
Raymond Burr
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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
