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— Katherine Anne Porter"All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate."
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I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.
— James Lee Burke
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How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.
— Michel de Montaigne
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