The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
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Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one?s self respect. For jealous people, like dope fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
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Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the environment or the world, which have no tongues to utter a defense. The mature man ac
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Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
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A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day
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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust
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[Men] really disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth.. They have too many disgusting habits - like scratching themselves all the time. And it's really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust
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If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
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She looked at me with absolute disgust.
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My initial reaction was a combination of disgust and apathy. Because, in general, we know there is a very strong voice in the U.S. That drowns out all other voices on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even somebody as dedicated as Rachel.
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We think consumers can now show their disgust at this highly unethical takeover.
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The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
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At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
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Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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All those big words produce disgust today.
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.
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I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.
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