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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.


Jane Addams

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men
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ARISTOTLE The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
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ERIC AVERY An equal measure of his environmental ethic derived from living in such a beautiful region of the st...
DAVE DEMPSEY All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.
E.M. FORSTER Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men...
XENOPHON Six feet of earth make all men equal.
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VICTOR COUSIN It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to cha...
AGNES MACPHAIL Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a ...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a ...
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RICHELLE MEAD A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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LOUIS D. BRANDEIS It is the fact that we are all different is that which makes us all the same.
JAIME CONTRERAS The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
EVO MORALES Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perh...
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IGNAZIO SILONE As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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ELLE SOMMER All men are equal before fish.
HERBERT HOOVER All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
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AVIJEET DAS All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have...
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WALTER BAGEHOT Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompro...
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ANTHONY CARMONA A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another ch...
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C. JOYBELL C. Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
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We'd see wh...
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JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
JANE TAYLOR To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER