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• Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Soul, Events, Logic

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, People, Design

  Immanuel Kant, Victor Lyle Dowdell, Hans H. Rudnick (1996). “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”, p.217, SIU Press

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• Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

  Saul Alinsky

  Successful, Essentials, Weapons

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.75, Vintage

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• Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

  Barney Frank

  Powerful, Politics, Weapons

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• Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Principles, Faces

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

  Frank X. Barron

  Creativity, Mean, Arrows

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• While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

  Isak Dinesen

  Failure, Ideas, Bears

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.10, Vintage

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• To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Giving, Credit

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

  Juvenal

  Men, Unhappy, Woe

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• Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

  Hilaire Belloc

  Real, Writing, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

  Sophie Germain

  Believe, Taken, Science

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• People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

  Gloria Allred

  People, Special, Should

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• I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story ... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

  Scott Peterson

  Opportunity, Voice, People

  "Amber Frey talks of trial, book and life after Peterson". www.cnn.com. January 11, 2005.

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• My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

  Tom Cruise

  Lonely, Fun, Kids

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• If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

  Lauryn Hill

  Dream, Real, Humanity

  "The Middle Man". Book by Lauryn Hill, 2003.

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• Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

  Bernard Haisch

  Cutting, Examination, Information

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• I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

  Tyra Banks

  Hate, Insecure, Talking

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• All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Practice, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson...”, p.178

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• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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• We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, People, Rewards

  "Learning to Expect the Unexpected" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 2004.

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• Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Weapons, Impossible

  "Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals".

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• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Laughter, Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between

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• I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

  Janet Jackson

  Mean, People, Diversity

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• The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encounttering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?

  Howard Lyman

  Law, Childhood, Parent

  "Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat". Book by Howard Lyman and Glen Merzer, 1998.

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• From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Knowing, Routine

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