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• [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Philosophy, Doors, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.

  William Mountford

  Flower, Heart, Dust

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.251

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• In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Law, United States, Bottom

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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• Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Views, Forgiving, Atheism

  Wendy Kaminer (2000). “Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety”, Vintage

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• Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Book, Writing, Men

  Michael Ignatieff (2013). “Fire and Ashes”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

  Pope Paul VI

  Past, Giving, Doe

  Pope Paul VI “Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.”

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• The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

  Henry Taylor

  Running, Philosophy, Men

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.1

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• My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

  Don DeLillo

  Attitude, Character, Sympathetic

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, America, Envy

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.80, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
  Left here without the light I loved so much,
  In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

  Petrarch

  Life, Grief, Light

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• You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Use, Baggage

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

  Ann Coulter

  Opponents, Emotion, Argument

  "Ann Coulter Defends Controversial Comments About Single Mothers". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2009.

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• We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

  Joe Lieberman

  Scary, God's Creation, Purpose

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• All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Country, Strong, Europe

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.129

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• The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Law, Liberty

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• Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Soul, Humanity

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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• The media has contempt for people that voted for Trump. They have no desire to understand who they are. They already think they know. They have no desire to drill down and find out why people would reject the woman they loved, Hillary Clinton.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge is required for generalities to be understood. They find it hard to grasp the concept of the meaning of their work, assuming this to be a debate that takes place at a lower level than the specialized discussions with their colleagues. When they do generalize, - or "popularize" as it is usually called with a noticeable degree of contempt - they tend to reveal a startling philosophical naiveté.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Philosophical, Levels, Littles

  Bryan Appleyard (2004). “Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science”, p.18, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• To be too busie gets contempt.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

  Maureen Dowd

  Should, Wells

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• The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.

  William Osler

  Medicine, Way, Common

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• Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Use, Bees

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Thee, Familiarity

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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