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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. – Eldridge Cleaver

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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. – Eldridge Cleaver

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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Metals has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like Im growing the muscles I want to grow again. – Feist

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Ive discovered that Ive never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So Im trying to learn – at this late stage in life! – to actually control that. – Rufus Sewell

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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. – Ivan Pavlov

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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. – Mikhail Bakunin

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