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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a part of human body language as gestures, facial expressions and postures.Even those people who insist that they despise attention to clothing, and dress as casually as possible, are making quite specific comments on their social roles and their attitudes towards the culture in which they live.
Desmond MorrisRead
Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
Edna St. Vincent MillayRead
Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.
Thomas GoodwinRead
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.
Alexis De TocquevilleRead
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
Mark TwainRead
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
George SantayanaRead
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
Bernard BaruchRead
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
Alfred Lord TennysonRead
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
Ben JonsonRead
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
ConfuciusRead
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
Seneca The YoungerRead
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
William BlakeRead
Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
Francois De La RochefoucauldRead
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Albert CamusRead
I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Martin LutherRead
In all I wish, how happy should I be,_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?_x000D_ _x000D_ So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;_x000D_ _x000D_ And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Jonathan SwiftRead
What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
W. Somerset MaughamRead
But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.
Honore De BalzacRead

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