Word: self-respect
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Despite their lack of freedom, the 800 million Chinese revere and adulate him, because he drove out the foreigners and restored to China much of its former power and self-respect...
...distinguished professor of surgery at least 20 years his senior, "What you want, boy?" My father struggled to maintain his dignity as he told the clerk what he wanted. I felt in my gut, for the first time, how hard it had been for black men to preserve their self-respect under a rigid system of white supremacy...
...purposes of his instruction, the denigrating voice is designated as Self 1 (read ego), the natural body as Self 2 (read id). Unless you can shut Self 1 up or calm him down, Gallwey contends, Self 2 will be too nervous to play. To help Self 2 devote itself to tennis, Gallwey wisely offers practical exercises on how to relax and watch the ball. Among them: actually trying to see the ball's seams as it approaches; following its trajectory back and forth while imagining it is creating a huge linear, free-form painting in the air. Says...
...less than an hour he phoned her and said he would not run. It was a decision, he stressed, that he had had to reach for himself. Even though it might mean the end of all his hopes, he would have his self-respect. And he would spare them both the familiar abuse-that he was Lyndon Johnson's puppet, that he was not tough enough, that people were tired of him-that would surely be heaped on him the minute he announced. As he would say later: "One thing I don't need at this stage...
...little more easygoing, a little less mean. He no longer spits at the respectable people, as he did in the liner notes of his first major album, Jerry Jeff Walker. Describing two people who were the subject of one song, "Curly and Lil," he wrote, "Their warmth, independence, and self-respect prove to all those pussys who had to 'think of the kids and the old lady' that people can do what they want to decently...