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An attitude of deep respect and esteem; Veneration.

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  • By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
  • Then there is reverence for what is around us, —reverence for our equals, to which he attributes an immense power in the culture of man.
  • Affirmed lived in reverence to 2001 and the age of 26.
  • I dedicate in reverence and love the work he bade me do
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