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contempt
«I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.»
«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Action,
Apathy
| Keywords:
absorption, apathy, bred, by far, carelessness, contempt, foe, indifference, pursuits, self-satisfaction
«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 surely suffice.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Military
| Keywords:
already, brain, contempt, cord, corded, earned, file, filed, files, file in, filing, given, has-been, him, joyfully, large, Marches, march on, mistake, music, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rank and file, spinal, spinal cord, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.»
«For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.»
«Familiarity breeds contempt - and children»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
All My Children, breeds, children, contempt, familiarity
«Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Familiarity
| Keywords:
accurate, breeds, contempt, familiar, familiarity, familiars, familiar with, opportunity, respect, such, to get, Truth by Reason
«It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
arrogance, career, contempt, finish, hypocrisy, proceed, This Man, to begin with
«If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, contempt, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, familiarity, in the beginning, occasion