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In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
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1936
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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
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Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.
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