#despise

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

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I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. ↗

— Norman Hartnell

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ↗

— William Penn

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What do you despise? By this are you truly known. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. ↗

— Virgil

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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

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