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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust

An individual who breaks a 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 the law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Im looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that dont just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. Ive nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I dont want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do. – Gemma Arterton

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About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. – John Woolman

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. – Benjamin Franklin

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You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. Ive carried a gun for 10 years. Ive carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself. – Luke Scott

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