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• Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

  George Will

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• That is who Barack Obama is – a person of admirable character – and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective – even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

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• There’s very little admirable about being a pirate. There’s very little functional about a pirate. There’s very little real about a pirate.

  Will Oldham

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• An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

  Jasmine Guy

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

  Mortimer J. Adler

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• Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

  William Bartram

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