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• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

  Benito Mussolini

  Heart, Hands, Leader

  "The Great Quotations" by George Seldes, (p. 349), 1966.

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• Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
  Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

  Philip Sidney

  Lovers, Virtue

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.180, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Tongue, Fit

  "The Prologue" l. 25 (1650)

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• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  Bob Woodward

  Law, Presidential, Criminals

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• Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, People, Earth

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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• Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

  Jim Rohn

  Adversity, Caring, Problem

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 21, 2017

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• No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

  Milan Kundera

  Kitsch, Matter, Human Condition

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mind, Doe

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.332

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• I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Temples, Blame

  "The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression". Book by Robert E. Gilbert, p. 78, 2003.

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• Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Growing Up, Shapes, Toes

  Last Poems (1939) "Under Ben Bulben" pt. 5

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• A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Funny, Marriage, Cigarette Smoke

  "The Betrothed" st. 25 (1886)

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• Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Mind, Criticism

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Expression, Intuition

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• The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Heaven, Religion

  "The Great Infidels" by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1881.

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• Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

  Thomas Bastard

  Luck, Mind, Age

  'Chrestoleros' (1598) bk. 7, epigram 9

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• Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fashion

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.53, St. Martin's Press

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• One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then I looked at my brother through the telescope of scorn, and I said, "How small my brother is." Then I looked into the mirror of truth and I said, "How like me my brother is."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Brother, Men, Mirrors

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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophical, Ideas, Optimism

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.9, Booklassic

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• Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

  Margaret Widdemer

  Grief, Motherhood, Mirth

  Margaret Widdemer (1917). “Factories, Poems”

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• Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Men, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!”

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Fighting, Gun

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• We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

  Will Durant

  Night, Government, Hands

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Honesty, Integrity, Punishment

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