#admirable

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

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The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think. ↗

— David Krumholtz

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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. ↗

— William Bartram

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. ↗

— Irving Wallace

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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