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• Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.

  Claud Cockburn

  Country, Couple, Divorce

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, West

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Mountain, Literature

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• Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

  D.E. Stevenson

  Talent, Gladness, Unselfishness

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• There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.

  Nat Hentoff

  Hero, Texas, Ku Klux Klan

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Judgement, Ignorant, Scripture

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Peculiar, World

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I think that is just about as dishonest as a person giving a bad interview. I despise people like that; they don't get two tries. It's all just sensation. It is always bullshit.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was a forgery, while the generality, professing to believe it genuine, should, less consistently, be satisfied with remaining ignorant of its contents, and when pressed, should discover themselves by no means to believe many of the most important particulars contained in it.

  William Wilberforce

  Believe, Mean, Ignorant

  William Wilberforce (1820). “Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...”, p.237

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• ... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new sins), come to Him, our Savior, with perfect repentance for tormenting Him, who despise all the strength of the fetters of sin and force themselves to break their bonds ? such people at last actually appear before the face of God made whiter than snow by His grace. 'Come, says the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them whiter than snow' (Isa. 1:18).

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Snow, Perfect

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• To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Doctrine, Word Of God

  Twitter post from Aug 2, 2017

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• Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Matter, Never Fear

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Destiny, Degrees

  Song: It's Alright, Ma

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• Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.

  Maurice Samuel

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Way, Computer

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• The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

  Juvenal

  Children, Years, Parent

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.162

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• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.

  Tim Cook

  Way, Rooms, Life Is

  "Tim Cook: Why I Fired Scott Forstall" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2012.

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• I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

  Christopher Lasch

  Sake, Clinging, Temperament

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• I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Thinking, Games

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• I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Practice, People

  "The Worst Man in the World". The Sunday Dispatch, July 02, 1933.

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• If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

  Joan Didion

  Self, Hands, Play

  "On Self-Respect". Vogue Magazine, www.vogue.com. 1961.

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• He who despises life is his life's master.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life Is, Stoicism, Masters

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