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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it co

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. – Ralph W. Sockman

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There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasnt back in the days when they did Cleopatra, where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. – John Milius

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I deserve respect for the things I did not do. – Dan Quayle

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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect. – Georges Cuvier

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We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. – Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths. – John Egerton

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Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. Theyre building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well. – Jim Hunt

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Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think its important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact. – Ashley Greene

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