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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.


Leslie Stephen


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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.


Tom Stoppard


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The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.


Jerry Bridges


#respectable-sins #worldliness #life

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I won't hurt anyone but myself.


Suzanne Collins


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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.


Alexander Borodin


#love #make #music #people #respectable

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'


David Guetta


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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.


Maurice Sendak


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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.


Cormac McCarthy


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It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.


G.K. Chesterton


#comets #cruel-colors #earthquakes #garden #night

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.


Alexis Arguello


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