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"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."
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"I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it."
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"Ian was a good man-honest, trustworthy, loyal, and of honorable character. His desire to keep his promise to Angelle and to be a respectable servant of Harrowbeth would always take president over any personal feelings, no matter how intense or gratifying they might be. He would never betray Harrowbeth. He would never cheat Derian or Angelle. He would never deceive his queen, even if in so doing he would find a love and happiness they both longed to share. His commitment to what he saw as right meant more."
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"Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war."
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"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
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"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."
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"Hate is for sissies. Fight makes gentleman."
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"Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."
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"And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."
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"For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all all honourable men."
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"Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Leadership
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
Science
"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated."
Now
"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."
Knowledge
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
Philosophy
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
Man
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Man
"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
Education
"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
Life
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
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