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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Despise Enough Few Few People Foolishness Knowledge Must People See Solitude Used Vanity Very Virtue Well Who World

Keywords: Abc


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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

~Abraham Maslow

Topics: Away Despise Dropped Gave Land Miles Nearest Ocean Out Plane Still Swim Thousand Thousand Miles Up Were Who

Keywords: Abandoned


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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

~Adam Savage

Topics: Able Being Delay Despise Fast Find Having Knowing Like Mood Pace Pointless Right Tool Work Worse Wrecks

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Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Also Cannot Choose Despicable Despise Express Expressions Freedom Freedom Of Speech Government Means Most Pick Pick And Choose Prevent Speech Those Views Which Who You

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I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

~Alec Baldwin

Topics: Despise Did Loathe Media Possible Think Way

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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

~Aleister Crowley

Topics: Able Account Consoling Despise Door Evidently Fact Far Goes Headed Hell Intolerance Neighbor Next Next Door People Reflect Religious Satisfaction Supreme

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Best Despise Get Never Others Out People Themselves Those Will

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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

~Allan Massie

Topics: Chap Civilised Despise Do You Know Folk He Know Makes Man Possible Soldier War Who You Young Young Man

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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

~Alton Brown

Topics: About Because Communicating Despise Done Hate Heat Proper Recipe Should Words Write Writers

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

~Alvin Toffler

Topics: Bureaucrats Despise Managers Most Thing Trained Were

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