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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

~Abraham Cowley

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

~Aesop

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

~Albert Einstein

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I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

~Aleksandr Lebed

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In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.

~Alex Berenson

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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

~Alice Miller

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To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

~Alice Paul

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In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.

~Andrew Zimmern

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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

~Antonin Scalia

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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

~Armstrong Williams

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