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Above all things, reverence yourself.

Pythagoras
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson
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Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.

Oprah Winfrey
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffer
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A lot are finding age works to their benefit. Not only do they have a body of life experience and skills to share, but in many developing countries, age is something regarded with reverence and respect.

Maria Lee
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Henry Beston
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Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

Bill Joy
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I'm a big baseball fan for sure. I don't know why we started doing it. It was just kind of funny and we always pick out baseball names from my childhood, because that's when the whole baseball reverence happened to me. I guess you could say there is something about old heroes that always makes them worth conjuring up.

Ketch Secor
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REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Ambrose Bierce
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

George Eliot
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Are there going to be love scenes in it? How do you portray it correctly? It has to be done with some reverence.

Lee Ielpi
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In India we do not seem to encourage innovation and reverence among young scientists. We do not seem to ask enough questions. Similarly, though we have so many engineers, there is inadequate focus on research and development.

Inder Verma
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that.

Ambrose Bierce
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Ambrose Bierce
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Every man now worships gold; all other reverence being done away.

Sextus Propertius
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Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Roger Tory Peterson
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There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

William Godwin
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There's not stuffiness, there's not reverence about literature ... it's actually very hip, often spontaneous, dramatizations of what's appearing in the magazine, to show just how alive and up-to-the-minute some of the fiction can be.

Bill Buford
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The singers have a reverence and awe for him.

Spencer Clark
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer
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Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and than is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Robert Millikan
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Havelock Ellis
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Dale Dauten
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Both serve for all to be able to come to offer reverence and prayer.

Kealoha Pisciotta
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Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Margaret Sanger
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It shows you that one person's life can make a difference. You had to stop in some sort of reverence for her.

Derrick Johnson
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I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

Ben Lindsey
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We can send the families to see the stone in a place of reverence.

David Vitek
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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Albert Schweitzer
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