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• Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

  Herman Melville

  Compassion, Land, Lazy

  Herman Melville (1850). “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in the Valley of the Marquesas”

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• Who wants to kill you?” the guy asked. He was still looking over his shoulder, but his expression was puzzled. “There’s nobody there,” the girlfriend told me. “You’re making them think they can’t see you, aren’t you?” I said to Patch, awed by his power even as I despised his use of it.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Expression

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Brain, Damage

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.

  James Cameron

  Character, Purpose, Emotion

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• Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Simple, Effort, Social

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• No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Politician, British

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• Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

  William Moulton Marston

  Beautiful, Strong Women, Character

  "The Secret History of Wonder Woman". Book by Jill Lepore, 2014.

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• It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, World, Poverty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.32, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

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• The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Wish, Poverty

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• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Steel, Fool

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

  Robert Burns

  Determination, Character, Adversity

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• Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

  Agnes Mary Clerke

  Ignorance, Hem, Garments

  Agnes Mary Clerke (2010). “A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century”, p.453, Cambridge University Press

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• The loyalty to Hillary Clinton is party loyalty, and by the way, she has a lot of support simply based on the fact that we are despised, folks, conservatives, Republicans are literally hated, irrationally and inexplicably.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Loyalty, Party, Support

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Community, Germany, Goebbels

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.

  Carl Hart

  Gay, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

  Noam Chomsky

  Practice, Sacred, Privilege

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Motivational, Fear, Inspiration

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Compassion, Animal

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Powerful, Children

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Males, Female, Culture

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• Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ignored, Praise, Condescending

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9238, Delphi Classics

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Native American, White, Simplicity

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

  Alison Bechdel

  Girl, Home, School

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