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“The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.”

Term Sacrifice Honor Ambition Ambitious Misers

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.”

Believe Hard Lasts Nations Term Changed Months Honor Baseball Agreement Legislation Conform Emergencies Council Request Mayors Accommodate Montreal Lease

Author:Bob DuPuy

“Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.”

Men Passion Term Honor Glory Strive Generous Depressing Contests Strife Handsome Emulation Enterprising

Author:Jeremy Collier

“Honor is a term much used but little understood.”

Littles Used Term Virtue Honor Understood

Author:Regina Maria Roche

“Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.”

Men Giving May Term Accepting Learning Honor Extraordinary Modesty Modest Autobiography Begging Representing Inscriptions

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.”

World Important Done Social Bits Term Pieces Land Honor Waste Criticism Critics Various Contemporary Relief Insignificant Grumbling Waste Land

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.”

Source: Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!

“To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.”

Source: Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability

“If we're to honor the heritage of our country, whether it be in terms of religious freedom, whether it be in terms of truly protecting life, protecting not just the unborn but who comes next, the infirm, the elderly, the maimed, the disabled - that's who comes next as we get into the budget crunch of taking care of those people in the years - I believe we ought to have that debate honest and openly.”

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Author:Tom Coburn

“I am honored to have served. I'm glad I ran. It is a huge honor to be able to be a two-term president. It was really a great experience. I'm fortunate to have been able to serve. And I think that's enough.”

Thinking Has Beens Two Enough Able President Term Huge Honor Glad Fortunate Ran Honored Great Experiences

Author:George W. Bush

“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.”

Art Soul Politics Term Honor Seductive

Author:Robert Redford

“But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis