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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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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Patience
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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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Graduation
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Society
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Its not that the Irish are cynical. Its rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. – Brendan Behan

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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries. – Omar Bongo

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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats. – Hideki Tojo

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You must change in order to survive. – Pearl Bailey

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My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldnt walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors. – James Woods

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He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance. – Old saying

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Its amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when theres some substance beneath it and when there isnt. Even if its poetically written and technically brilliant, Id rather hear something thats all over the place but has some soul to it. – Teddy Thompson

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