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  • #1
    Adolf Hitler
    “And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
    Adolf Hitler

  • #2
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #3
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #4
    Dave Barry
    “I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”
    Dave Barry

  • #5
    Confucius
    “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
    Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

  • #6
    Greta Garbo
    “I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”
    Greta Garbo, Garbo

  • #7
    Chief Seattle
    “My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.”
    Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle's Speech (1854)

  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World

  • #9
    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”
    Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

  • #10
    Robert F. Kennedy
    “What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”
    Robert F. Kennedy

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    John Lennon

  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

  • #14
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #15
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

  • #16
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #20
    Oprah Winfrey
    “You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #21
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #22
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh



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