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«You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.»
«When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination»
«The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
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Heroism
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attain, a people, height, heroism, ridicule
«The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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Faith,
Truth
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Among the, Catholic, dogma, gifted, infidels, presents, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules, scientific, scrutiny, The Infidels
«While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known -- communism.»
Author: Billy Graham
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American eagle, committees, denouncement, eagle, exposing, investigation, lavender, lavenders, pinks, Public Enemy, public works, Reds, ridicule, The Wings, undercover, unpopular, vantage, vantage point, watchdog
«To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules
«The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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Imagination,
Inspiration,
Joy,
Nature
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deformities, deformity, green, greener, greens, moves, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules, scarce, scarcer, scarcest, stands, The greens, thing in itself, Tree