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"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
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"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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"Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity."
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"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
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"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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"Respect yourself enough to walk away from what doesn't serve you."
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"It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself."
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"Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
Criticism

"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
Education

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
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"Time stays, we go."
Time

"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
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"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
Perception

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."
Politics

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
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"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."
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"Life is a dead-end street."
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