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"Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child."
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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."
"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."
"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."
"I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating."
"Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe."
"It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions."
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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."
"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."
"Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or which deity works for whom. Sincere religion and tested science are similar in that their assertions can be argued logically and objectively; otherwise, we get false cults and babble."
"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."
"The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works."
"A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself."
"A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way."
"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
"Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society."
"To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others."
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