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The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. ↗

— Quintilian

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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. ↗

— Ted Rall

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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. ↗

— Anita Roddick

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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. ↗

— Peter Pace

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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. ↗

— John White Geary

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