#contempt

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. ↗

— Holly Black

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..What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering,does become The opposite of itself.. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#envy #grant #high #lie #low

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#breeds #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #free

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

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