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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our

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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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his hearts the last part moves, her last, the tongue. – Benjamin Franklin

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Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you cant say, Lets just go back to where we were pre-9/11. – Al-Waleed bin Talal

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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 firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. – Julius Erving

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I think thats what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard. – Ed OBrien

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A task left undone remains undone in two places — at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience. – Brahma Kumaris

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Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. – Joseph Rotblat

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. – William Dean Howells

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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. – Blaise Pascal

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