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"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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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."
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
"Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity."
"It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself."
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
"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."
"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from what doesn't serve you."
"The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
"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."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
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