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• In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

  Philip K. Dick

  Rebel, Authority, My Own

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.124, Vintage

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• Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  George Mikes (1969). “Coat of Many Colors: Israel”

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• People who expect deference resent mere civility.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Civility, Deference

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• You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care and I'll continue not to bother to brush my hair.' Or you can be a weak-willed person like me and think 'oh I'd better get my act together. And maybe my mother was right and I do need to put my hair back and tidy myself up a bit.' So I did tidy myself up a bit. But I do often resent the amount of time that it takes to pull yourself together to go on TV, I really do. If I sound bitter, then that accurately reflects how I feel about the subject.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Witty

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• Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

  Confucius

  Women, Distance, Hands

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.

  Richard Livingstone

  Memories, Sleep, Years

  Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

  Alfie Kohn

  Growing Up, Unconditional Love, Resent You

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• I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, People, Age

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• And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Blue, Self, Ideas

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• I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against, but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I’ve every learned to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’ I don’t want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard – but I do. And part of it is my own fault.

  Megan Fox

  Intelligent, Goes On, Want

  "Megan Fox Talks Bisexuality for Guys, Robert Pattinson for Ladies" by Jennifer Cody, www.eonline.com. May 11, 2009.

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• Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

  Annette Lu

  Fighting, Taiwan, Reason

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• Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

  Graham Russell

  Stones, Way, Used

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• I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

  Gina McCarthy

  Hard Work, People, Challenges

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• I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

  Paul McGann

  Television, Essex, Way

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• It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

  Josephine Tey

  Thinking, Ideas, Annoyed

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• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Cities, Dysfunction, Attachment

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• Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dark, Men

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.

  George Will

  People, Political, Ambitious

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• The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

  Dick Morris

  Presidential, Political, Vices

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don't think they know. And I can't see any authority on the horizon that's got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Personality, Enigma, Clear

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10, 2000.

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• I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Fun, Winning

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• Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Resentment, Persons

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• There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.

  Tim Willits

  Player, Games, People

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• How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

  Richard Bach

  Wish, Credit, Blame

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