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• To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

  Clarence Darrow

  Love, Lonely, Age

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• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

  Georg Baselitz

  Father, Europe, Generations

  Interview with Pamela Kort, michaelwerner.com. April 2003.

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• Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Adversity

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• Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

  Francis of Assisi

  Blessed, Men, People

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• We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked on them only as sweet-voiced singers, and nothing more; they did not wish to fulfill their commands, they even despised, persecuted, beat and killed them; lest we should be like those, by whom 'no prophet is accepted in his own country' (Lk. 4:24).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Country, Sweet

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• The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

  Ayn Rand

  Success, Men, Years

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.182, Hamilton Books

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• One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.

  Hjalmar Söderberg

  People, Soul, Desire

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• Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lying, Errors, Soul

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.1

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• My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Pride, Boys

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  War, Mean, Victory

  Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

  Quentin Crisp

  Grief, Essence, Guilt

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• A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.

  Euell Gibbons

  Beautiful, Weed, Interesting

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• O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mother, Children, Rocks

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• An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Dangerous

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• Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Flattery, Vulgarity, Flatterer

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• Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, People, Different

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• There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Thinking, Philosopher, Reason

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• The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Degrees, Bulls, Mouths

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons”, p.148

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• It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Wonderful, Knows, Deep Down

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• Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Attention, Done

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.175, OUP Oxford

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• Here`s what I`m curious about. For the president of Mexico, this man, Donald Trump, is, it`s probably not an understatement to say, despised by many Mexicans.

  Steve Kornacki

  Men, President, Mexico

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.

  David Roediger

  Kids, Color, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Powerful, Flower

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