John Podhoretz

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

American Writer

Robert Green Ingersoll

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

American Lawyer

Franz Marc

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

German Artist

Barbara Corcoran

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

American Businesswoman

Laura Marling

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

English Musician

Miguel de Cervantes

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Spanish Novelist

John C. Bogle

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

American Businessman

John Gay

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

English Poet

Horace

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Roman Poet

Gordon W. Allport

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

American Psychologist

Use 'scorn' for severe feelings, more intense than just not liking someone or something.

Strong Dislike

'Scorn' often implies expressing one's disdain openly, not just feeling it internally.

Public Expression

In literature, 'scorn' is used to create drama between characters.

Literary Use

When 'scorn' is a verb, it can imply rejecting beliefs or practices that others value.

Rejecting Values

Scorning involves an active decision to show disdain or contempt rather than indifference.

Active Disregard

'Scorn' as a noun implies that the disdain is powerful and profound.

Extreme Contempt

Becoming an object of 'scorn' can result in social exclusion or stigma.

Social Stigma

To 'scorn' in the sense of rejection is to do so with emphasis and without hesitation.

Forceful Rejection

'Scorn' often implies refusal based on one's principles or standards.

Standards and Pride

 peace and this amazing world we live in today and every weekend I'd come back and talk to my rock and I would you send to my yoga practice and everything like that and I was searching and then in seven weeks my rock disappeared I got very upset and I scorned the beach everywhere looking for

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 and schools for social entrepreneurs. And he ended his life selling companies to venture capitalists. He believed if you see a problem, you shouldn't tell someone to act, you should act on it yourself, and he lived long enough and saw enough of his ideas first scorned and then succeed

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 or you're drinking coffee in their diner, and they will come and scorn you, and tell you that they don't want you anywhere near them. I find the stigma especially ironic, because I strongly believe that sanitation workers are the most important labor force

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 we have to make the case for it. My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles -- only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor.

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 in how to run a human society. They constitute experiments from which we ourselves may be able to learn. Tribal societies shouldn't be scorned as primitive and miserable, but also they shouldn't be romanticized as happy and peaceful.

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 high value on work so all the people who are no longer working on respected another reason is our American emphasis on the virtues of self-reliance and independence so that we instinctively scorn all the people who are no longer

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 these models were already looked upon with scorn this Megalosaurus for instance ashamed walking on all four legs but we now know he would have been bipedal he would have stood on just his hind legs and his four legs would have

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 a competitive-ranked chiefly society; and their scorn for the Inuit, from whom they refused to learn. So that's how the five-part framework is relevant to the collapse and eventual extinction of the Greenland Norse.

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 She had no experience with the legal system, no money, and no power in the eyes of the court. Ignoring the jury’s scorn, Truth said she was there to fight for custody of her five-year-old son Peter,

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 hath no fury like the proverbial scorned there for this and so he's probably very wisely keeping a distance from lions and squabbling leopard Isis if I were him I'd be far away from here as possible

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