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• Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People

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• Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

  Allan Massie

  War, Men, Soldier

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

  Otto Weininger

  Women, Thinking, Opinion

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.236, Рипол Классик

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• We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

  Josh Billings

  Hate, Advice, Rebellious

  "Josh Billings, His Book of Sayings".

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• The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

  Andre Malraux

  Self Esteem, Hell, Force

  "Man's Fate". Book by André Malraux, 1933.

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• I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

  Werner Herzog

  Potato Chips, Potatoes, Restaurants

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• Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

  Lynne Truss

  Communication, Care, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

  George Santayana

  Men, Dignity, Capacity

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.230, Рипол Классик

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• We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fear

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.421

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• They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

  Boris Pasternak

  Hate, Want, Things You Love

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• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7278, Delphi Classics

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• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  Confucius

  Determination, Evil

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.

  Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

  Mind, Littles, Might

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• Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Turns, Words Of Wisdom

  "What Has Wisdom Got to Do with It? - 365 Daily Wisdom Confessions and Declarations". Book by Jasmine Renner, p. 85, 2013.

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• There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Admire, Plague

  "The Plague".

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• Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

  Ann Landers

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Letting Go

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fear, Hate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• People generally despise where they flatter.

  Aristotle

  People, Flattery

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• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Power, Bears

  "Dictionary Of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus And Mottos, Classical And Medieval, Including Law Terms And Phrases". Book by H. Z Riley, November 5, 2015.

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• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Country, Travel

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• I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

  George Stevens

  Arrogance, Brutality, Fierce

  George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Player, Color

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• Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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