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• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Judging, Community

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

  Horace

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Being Thankful

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• The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Wall, Believe

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• She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Dirty, Men, Pigs

  "Altogether: Being the collected stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Rain)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1934.

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• In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.

  Michael Parenti

  School, College, Political

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  All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Honesty, People

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Love Life, Ego

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “What I Believe”, p.22, Routledge

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• I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me

  Caligula

  Hatred, Fear Me, Ifs

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• When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

  B. J. Palmer

  Sorry, Flower, Men

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• The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Laughing, Enemy

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Giving, Reason

  "Salon de 1845". Book by Charles Baudelaire, May 1845.

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• In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

  C.J. Sansom

  Men, Healthy, Worship

  C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.194, Penguin

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• Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Love, Shepherds, Maids

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.79

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• Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved.

  Louis-Joseph Papineau

  Wells, Courtiers

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• The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Thank You, Appreciation

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Sleep, Voice

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Swans, White

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.434

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• Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Hypocrisy, Yoke

  Friedrich Schiller (1864). “The Poems and Ballads of Schiller”, p.77

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• Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

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