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«I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they dislike»
«There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.»
Author: Pamela Hansford Johnson
(Author, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptable, artistic, artistic creation, demonstrably, detest, disturbing, sainthood, saints, unfairness
«The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Lies,
Men,
Truth
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admire, American, American people, daring, detest, detested, detesting, detests, extravagantly, liars, The American, The Men, violently
«I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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detest, lecture, lectures, shy, speaker
«Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Hate
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at leisure, by far, detest, detested, haste, in haste, leisure, longest
«Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.»
«I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination,
Life,
Opinions,
Racism
| Keywords:
African, assurance, at ease, detest, discrimination, entitled, fellow feeling, hold in, inferior, intensely, manifestations, racial, racial discrimination, set up, South, South African, South Africans, surrounds, violently, white man
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