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“Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.”

Way Firsts Wells Ends Difficult Attitude Morning Dignity Treats Contracts Cynicism Negativity Making Changes Difficult Things Dignity And Respect

Author:Rick Pitino

“The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.”

“Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.”

Source: The Encantadas and Other Stories

“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.”

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.”

“Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!”

Way Life Firsts Faces Life Is Comedy Creatures Dignity Tragedy

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.”

Firsts Humans Action Form Interesting Events Elements Dignity Agents Concrete Accuracy Presenting Truthfulness Reciting

Book:An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

Source: An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

“First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.”

Men Firsts Looks May Names Knowledge Dignity Originals Scripture Attributes Platforms Sobriety Archetype

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Two Country Happens Party Struggle Wise Groups Victory Dignity Democrat Rewards Libertarian Ignorant Fascists Reactionaries Wise People

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.”

Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986

“I would like to be remembered as someone who gave it all and went for it all, As a woman of strong conviction, character, dignity, and talent who always put God first.”

Firsts Character Strong Talent Dignity Conviction Remembered God First Put God First

Author:Zulay Henao

“What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?”

Want Needs Should Firsts Art Philosophy Artist Asks Process Deals Dignity Destruction Discussion Elevation Saying And Doing

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.”

“[Ronald] Reagan talked to people across the world and he was very successful in communicating and treating people with dignity and respect, but putting America first in every single we do.”

People World Firsts America Successful Dignity Communicate Dignity And Respect

Author:Reince Priebus

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”

People Firsts Values Land Essentials Dignity Bread Concrete Wretched

Book:The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“Grub first, then ethics.”

Firsts Food Morality Eating Ethics Dignity Cooking Cynicism Altruism

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”

Firsts Self Lasts Morality Dignity Independence Righteousness Self Righteous Self Righteousness Conventionality

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Two Done Today Turns Chance Known Steps Forever Heard Return Battle Thousand Shots Dignity Soldier Command First Steps Thousand Years Statues Turning Points

Author:Leon Uris

“Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity.”

Knows Firsts Wells Littles Said Different Past Courses Kissing Dignity Tongue Strikes Staring Do You Know Peter Ashley

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.”

Firsts Humans Lying Moral Brother Fairs Dignity Goods Brotherhood

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Long Enough Failing Masters Dignity Cat Decent Pretending Wounded Stalking When All Else Fails

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.”

Firsts Humans Heart Running Quality Dignity Affair Abandoned

Book:The Blue Afternoon

Source: The Blue Afternoon

“The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.”

“[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.”

Firsts Laughing Creatures Comfortable Dignity Breaths Instinct Dear Absurd Toms Lacking Aunt Prestige Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Book:Less than angels

Source: Less than angels

“What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.”

“A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.”

Writing Firsts Mean Clear Subjects Style Dignity Appropriate

Author:Aristotle

“The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all. We have to proclaim that every human being is equal, in dignity, in freedom -and, as the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, we have to live in a spirit of brotherhood.”

“Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.”

Men Inspirational Should Firsts Two Next Feet Minutes Position Arms Dignity Reach Out

Author:Kristin Hunter

“All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Persons Whole Moments Life Is Mother Order Moral Stage Greatness Dignity Sacred Blow Human Life Conception Womb Pro Life Indirect Right To Life

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”

“It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.”

People Ifs Men Firsts Country Evil Lost Black Steps Crime Pride Personality Birth Dignity Empty Supreme Allowing Realising Vehicle First Steps Shells Reign Pumps Complicity Misused Empty Shell

Author:Steven Biko

“When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Said Two Quality Cases Office Dignity Property Ill Relate Latter Description Attributes Articles Adjectives Affinity Nouns Connexion

Author:Granville Sharp

“This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.”

Source: It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice

“In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.”

Needs Should Firsts Humans Helping Spirit Groups Willing Dignity Folks Pursuit Ass Good Times

Author:Molly Ivins

“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.”

Firsts Lost Friendship Dignity Praise Merit

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

“[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.”

Firsts War Light Purpose Fighting Goal Dignity Mercy Silent Athlete Miles Boat Solitary Brutal Conditioning Grim All Alone Lone Rowing

Book:True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

Source: True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

“It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.”

People Firsts Hard Majors Dignity Labels Truthful

Author:Kurt Cobain

“If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.”

Ifs Firsts Dignity Agriculture Usefulness

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler