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"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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"Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
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"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."
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"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
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"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
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"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."
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"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
Communication
"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."
Mind
"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."
Society
"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."
Ideas
"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
Admiration
"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."
Children
"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."
Rights
"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."
Society
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