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41 " Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish allusions. "
42 " How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence? "
43 " It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life. "
― Tami Egonu , A Rhapsody of Dreams
44 " I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. "
45 " I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. "
46 " I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode. "
47 " I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "
― Stephen Leacock
48 " God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution. "
49 " I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society. "
50 " I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it. "
51 " Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. "
