"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

Ethics, Respect, Behavior, Power, Interaction

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

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"It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!"

Joyce Meyer, American Author

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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"To live consciously and courageously, to resonate with kindness and respect, to awaken the true spirit within others and to leave this world better than it was when i found it."

Sravani Saha Nakhro, Indian Author

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"He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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"Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart."

Sherrilyn Kenyon, American Author

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

Age

"To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes."

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"The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about."

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"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."

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"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush."

Hair

"Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune."

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"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

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"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

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