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«Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.»
Author: Allan Massie | Keywords: as soldiers, chap, chaps, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, despise, despising, folk, On War, possible, soldier, soldiered, soldiering, Soldiers of the, The War of the, war, warring, young, young man
«Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung | Keywords: despise, tactically
«Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head»
Author: Ann Landers (Advice columnist) | About: Resentment | Keywords: despise, despising, free, get the hang, hanging, hang in, hang out, hang up, head, letting, onto, rending, rends, rent-free, rent, rented, renting, rents, rent out, resentment, resentments
«...There are more things to admire in men than to despise.»
Author: Albert Camus (Essayist, Novelist, Playwright) | Keywords: admire, despise
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad | Keywords: blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, descent, despise, exact, exaggeration, exaggerations, giggle, giggled, giggles, good enough, insistent, notion, sincerity, snivel, sniveling, The Victim, victim
«By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: accustom, accustomed, continually, despise, despising, in time, reproof, reproofs, scold, scolded, scolding, to it
«A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | Keywords: acclaim, acclaimed, barely, despise, manager, obey
«Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | About: Habit | Keywords: bear, despise, despising, fatigue, fatigued, fatigues, fatiguing, habit, teaches, wounds
«Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.»
Author: Publilius Syrus | Keywords: ascent, despise
«Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman»
Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop, Theologian) | Keywords: despise, Son, Son of, Son of God, the Son
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