- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accorded Quotes
What is accorded reveals what is valued.
This page collects accorded quotes, starting with a ballplayer contrasting the respect major league players are accorded with unequal treatment faced by national team players in Cuba. It is a pointed comparison of fairness and Honor across systems.
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
- Custodian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though little known in the U.S., the Dakar is a sports juggernaut in Europe, where France's state broadcasting company runs more than 25 hours of coverage, and the leading drivers and riders are accorded the same status we give to Super Bowl quarterbacks.
- Celebrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020