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• The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

  Emily Carr

  Men, Canada, Fields

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Groups

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

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• Only the elites despise earning money.

  Newt Gingrich

  Earning, Earning Money, Elites

  "Race raised in US election year". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2012.

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• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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• Dangers by being despised grow great.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Danger, Grows

  Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792, in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Sex, Men

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• Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Fairy Stories, Looks, Facts

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.113, Penguin

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• Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Stars, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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• We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Generations, Literature

  "Selected Literary Criticism".

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• …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Hate, Book

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• Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Passion, Feelings

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.23, The O'Brien Press

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• Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Brother, Home, Warrior

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.479, Dell

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• When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Real, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Envy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So when I walk - nay, crawl - out of here at the end of my workouts, I want to lull myself to sleep by picturing my very talented and inspirational trainer getting hit by a bus. A bus that I am driving.

  Jen Lancaster

  Workout, Hate, Sleep

  Jen Lancaster (2007). “Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?”, p.352, Penguin

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• If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Problem, Concern

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  Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

  Hippocrates

  Doctors, Ayurveda, Foolish

  Entering the world (M. Odent)

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• I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Long, People, Trying

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• From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Way, Pope

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.61, Vintage

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• Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Hate, Animal

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Religion, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

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• If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.

  Nate Saint

  Christmas, Hate, Sacrifice

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• If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.

  Chan Khong

  Peace, Morning, Ubuntu

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• The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

  Eustace Budgell

  Gratitude, People, Way

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• If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

  Carl Rogers

  Self Esteem, People, Majority

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