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• Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like.

  Hillary Clinton

  Self Worth, Thinking, Dignity

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• The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking minority party.

  Jeff Flake

  Party, People, Republican

  "Frontline". "Trump’s Takeover", www.pbs.org. April 10, 2018.

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• The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Reading, Needs

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• Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

  Azar Nafisi

  Real, Trying, Fiction

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.3, Random House

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• I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Struggle, Understanding

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• The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Talking, Imagination, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  Tony Blair

  Heart, People, May

  "Blair Steps Down, Takes Up Mideast Peace". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 27, 2007.

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• It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Artist, Common Folk, Olympus

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• I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mind, Used, Angry

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• It was much easier for me to endure the belittling than it was to watch my dad get belittled.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Watches, Easier

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• You can disagree, but it`s a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

  Bill Press

  Dignity, Presidency, Disagree

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

  Marco Pierre White

  Environment, Swear, Sufficient

  Source: tart.org

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• By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that happens...we set our own standards even before we walk out the door. Most of the time, those standards are self insulting. Most of the time we belittle ourselves, because we can't have the things we think we're suppose to have. That's what we've bought into.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Judgement, Insulting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Donald Trump attacked the woman reporter writing the story, called her "disgusting," as he has called a number of women during his campaign. Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like. So we know what Donald thinks and what he says and how he acts toward women. That's who Donald is.

  Hillary Clinton

  Writing, Thinking, Dignity

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Diversity, Celebrate

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Accessible music is much harder. I could throw out the other kind of albums with my eyes closed. I wouldn't belittle those who want to do the Tricky thing, but it does make me wonder sometimes.

  Jamie Lidell

  Eye, Kind, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

  Christine Milne

  Thinking, Australia, Female

  "Meet the Press" with Kathryn Robinson, www.news.com.au. March 24, 2013.

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• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Pain, Other Cultures

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Disappointment

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.202, Harper Collins

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• We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

  John Piper

  Worship, Pleasure, Persons

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• When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.

  Hafez

  Laughing, Hafiz, Vote

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• I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

  Maya Angelou

  Clever, Ignorance, Talking

  "Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, Ideas, Divine

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• But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Mean, Connections

  Chris Colfer (2013). “The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Dream, Bullying, Children

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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