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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.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Determination
| Keywords:
despise, dropped, How to swim, miles, nearest, ocean, plane, swam, swim
«If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| Keywords:
despise, despising, expression, Freedom of expression
«Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.»
«Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
denigrate, despise, impose, run away, serves, unquestioningly
«I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy»
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
(Composer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
despise, despising, higher, philosophy, revelation
«I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.»
«More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning»
«I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.»
«It is only the ignorant who despise education.»
«Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
despise, discontents, increase, secrets, Thee, THY, twill
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