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The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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