"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.“
-Edward Gibbon
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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I was never less alone than when by myself."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
-Gordon B. Hinckley
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
-Rita Rudner
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
-Georges Duhamel
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
-Confucius
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