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Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated… — Muhammad Ali
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying… — Auguste Piccard
A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to)… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy… — Akhenaton
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is… — Khalil Gibran
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. — G. H. Hardy
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to… — Joseph Conrad
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath… — Friedrich Schiller
We love what we should scorn if we were wiser. — Marie de France
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes… — Elizabeth I
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. — John Ruskin
Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved. — Unknown Author
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to… — John Milton
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. — Unknown Author
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for… — Charles Lamb
One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then I looked at… — Thomas S. Monson
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near… — Isaac Jogues
Only your mother could find you attractive, and only your mother could love you. — Unknown Author
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. — William Shakespeare
Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind. — Unknown Author
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a… — Unknown Author

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