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Only the contemptible fear contempt.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Contempt Contemptible Fear Only

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I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Afterlife Any Church Contempt Down Get Had Held Hell Idea Institution Just Kept Me Nothing Now Rid

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Always Behind Contempt Impersonal Personal Themselves Vanity Woman Women

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The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.

~George Packer

Topics: Contempt Convention Easiest Freedom Grow Grow Up Had Individual Individual Freedom Libertarian Never People Really Social Up Who Worship

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Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.

~George Packer

Topics: About Appeals Campaign Conservatism Contempt Country Expertise Given Identity Ignorance Palin Politics Raw Republicans Sarah Sarah Palin Spirit Today Trump White Whose World

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