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Letter "D" » despicable
«Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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based, based on, Basing, despicable, on base, respect
«It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them»
«I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
(Philanthropist)
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despicable, devotes, hours, Nothing More, pathetic, sake, The Hours, waking
«There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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attempt, based, cockroach, Cockroaches, combine, despicable, In The Dark, prejudice, religious belief, religious beliefs, secret societies, secret society, thriven, throve
«It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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accuse, accuses, accusing, conventions, despicable, Human nature, pervert, perverting, perverts, The Accused, the Convention, the conventions
«If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable. If their intention was to deter us from our mission of promoting peace and security in the Middle East, they will fail utterly.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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accountable, cowardly, despicable, deter, deterred, deterring, intention, Middle East, Mission of, promoting, The Middle East, This Was
«A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others»
«Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Ambition
| Keywords:
despicable, pitiless
«It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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God
| Keywords:
arrogant, conceive, conceive of, despicable, hateful, Jewish
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