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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Humankind
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I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nations Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. – Karl Malone

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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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respect

I said Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this. He said, oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, dont worry about it. But theyre not. – Nia Long

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respect

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even. – Katie Couric

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respect

Random Quotes

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. – Aristotle

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Government

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. – Thomas a Kempis

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Love

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

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Conformity

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. – Fran Lebowitz

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Death