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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.


Andre Gide


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That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.


Elizabeth Gilbert


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People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.


Helen Hayes


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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.


Ludwig van Beethoven


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The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.


Willard Van Orman Quine


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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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