#honors

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. ↗

— Julien Benda

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I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home. ↗

— John Cameron

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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. ↗

— James Otis

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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

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Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. ↗

— Joe Barton

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The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues. ↗

— Robert Hofstadter

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