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That you may retain your self-respect it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

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William J. H. Boetcker
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Category: Respect

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
  • 2. New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age the airplane the atom bomb the radio in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
  • 3. We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics and into the age of biology.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson who is a legend.
  • 2. For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London Barcelona Bologna Hong Kong Thailand Morocco… It was amazing.
  • 3. I've had four amazing men in my life very strong powerful wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

3 Anger

  • 1. When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
  • 2. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
  • 3. My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 2. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
  • 3. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

5 Architecture

  • 1. My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
  • 2. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
  • 3. Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
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