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We should like to have some towering geniuses to reveal us to ourselves in colour 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.

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Despise not death but welcome it for nature wills it like all else.

Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Modernity is the transitory the fugitive the contingent which make up one half of art the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element which is constantly changing must not be despised or neglected.