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    Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

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    Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

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    False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

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    For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

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    Few men are admired by their servants.

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    Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

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    Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

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    Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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    Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

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    Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

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    For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

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    Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

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    He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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    Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

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    How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

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    Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

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    His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.

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    He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

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    I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

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    I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

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    I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

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    I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

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    I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.

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    I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

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    I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

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    Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

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    If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

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    I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

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    I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

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    I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.

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    I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

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    I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

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    I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

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    I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.

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    I learned from admiration and osmosis.

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    I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

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    I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.

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    I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.

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    I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

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    Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

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    I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

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    I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

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    It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

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    It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

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    It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

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    It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

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    It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

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    I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

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    I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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    I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.