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• Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

  Julie Burchill

  Discipline, People, Mind

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• Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

  Julie Burchill

  Levels, Hierarchy, Worship

  "Once we had anarchy in the UK. Now all we have is monarchy in the UK". www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mean, Government, Views

  "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Bravery, Coward

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• People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimistic, People, Leader

  "Daniel Kahneman’s Gripe with Behavioral Economics". Interview with Jesse Singal, www.thedailybeast.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Successful, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Anger, Politics

  "Agricola". Book by Tacitus. Chapter 42. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

  Charlize Theron

  People, Trying

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 25, 2013

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• Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Character, Dark

  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

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• The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Simple, Ideas, Usual

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• The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Character, Mean

  "American Masonic Register and Literary Companion", Volume 1, (p. 163), 1829.

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• I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Departure, Earth

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• That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Wicked World, Trouble, Rainforest

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• Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Judging, World

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1736, Delphi Classics

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• Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wings, People, Brain

  "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 9), 1958.

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• I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Kings, War

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• One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Jung and the Story of Time". Book by Laurens van der Post, 1975.

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• There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Law, Trying

  "A Long Fatal Love Chase".

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• I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I despise a hypocrite or a covenant breaker. I judge them not; God shall judge them according to their works. I am a lover even of mine enemies, for an enemy seeketh to destroy openly. I can pray for those who despitefully use and persecute me, but for all I cannot hope.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Hypocrite, Judging, Enemy

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• I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Understand Me, Knows, Mr Thornton

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “North and South”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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• You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Motivational, Real

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• I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

  Stef Penney

  Weakness, Action, Conversation

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

  Elaine Dundy

  Character, Doe, Complaining

  "Elvis and Gladys". Book by Elaine Dundy, 1985.

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• I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.

  Kristin Cashore

  Love You, Eye, Heart

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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