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• Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Color

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• Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

  "Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Treasure

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

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• I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Fashion, Fighting, Laughing

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Evil, Body

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• It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Dirty, Men, Hands

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• We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

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• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  Paul Strand

  Gratitude, Thinking, Men

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• The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hate, Sight, Opposites

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.86, Random House

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• I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

  Jess Walter

  Silly, Writing, Thinking

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• We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.

  Emile Chartier

  Taken, Passion, Light

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• Never to despise in myself what I have been taught
  to despise. Nor to despise the other.
  Not to despise the it. To make this relation
  with the it: to know that I am it.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Tolerance, Taught, Relation

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press

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• Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Belief

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That is a thing where they're proabably like 'oh, you can just go out and buy a new pair'. Like yeah, but those are my shoes. How would you feel if I tried to steal your shoes?

  Jack Barakat

  Shoes, People, Everyday

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• Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Esteem, Stills

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• I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t.

  Bill Maher

  Plato, Father, Thinking

  "Mark Levin Rips Bill Maher for Saying Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Tea Partiers" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. January 18, 2011.

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• I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Men, Evil, Broken

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2006). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.289, Penguin

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• He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Acceptance, Self, Esteem

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• If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.

  Michael Faraday

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Mind, Body

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.309, Cambridge University Press

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• She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Men, Merit

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• People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.

  George Carlin

  Song, Hate, Eye

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• Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Voice, Strange

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.113, Random House

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