Quotes 61 till 73 of 73.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
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What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
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Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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