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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • America
  • Fighting
  • Ugly

• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Books
  • Ugly
  • Universal

• I've felt ugly and insecure.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Ugly
  • Felt
  • Insecure

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Me
  • Humanity
  • Ugly

• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Baby
  • Ugly
  • Nasty

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Song
  • Ugly

• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Kill

• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Thousand

• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Political
  • Trump

• In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Taught
  • Doctrine

• I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• More disturbing still was their frequent use of the word 'dominance' to describe their strategic goal, because an American policy of dominance is as repugnant to the rest of the world as the ugly dominance of the helpless, naked Iraqi prisoners has been to the American people. Dominance is as dominance does.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Ugly
  • Tough
  • Impaired

• Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

  

  Matthew Ashford
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Worry

• The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Hope
  • Risk

• Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

  

  Sophocles
  • Ugly
  • Taught
  • Deeds