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You don't see much hazing. Most people are smart, educated individuals who don't want to subject themselves to ridicule or nonsense.

Kyle Schmidt
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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

William Warburton
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass
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We felt it was a harassment tactic in an effort by some board members to further ridicule her.

Waukeen Mccoy
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.

Charles Simmons
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But while it's possible to imagine tasteless jokes that ridicule human suffering, it's equally possible to imagine jokes that express outrage, assert a will to endure, or challenge dominant or majority thinking.

Paul Lewis
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Gross abusers of e-mail risk exposure to public ridicule as well as the economic death penalty.

Robert Kramer
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Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.

Sydney Smith
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That will bring us a lot of attention, It will bring us great ridicule across the state. I'm not sure if we care about that.

Roger Perry
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Cincinnati's connection with pigs has always been seen both as a serious economic issue and a point of humor or ridicule.

Brendan Hurley
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I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Beverly Mitchell
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My perception is that animal bills always get a certain amount of ridicule, ... It's hard to get them taken seriously, even though everyone's constituents care a lot about animals. It shouldn't be the case. Nonetheless, it is.

Paul Koretz
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I'm sorry they're disbanding. The Bag Ladies have been such an institution in the fight against HIV. They set themselves up for ridicule but they overcome it.

Betty Wilson
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Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Alan K. Simpson
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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Lord Melbourne
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison
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