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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. ↗

— Erica Jong

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I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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