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Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear.John Lewis
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Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.Aristotle
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.Thomas Jefferson
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.Ulysses S. Grant
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.Manfred von Richthofen
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Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.Robert Fripp
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For hostile word let hostile word be paid.Aeschylus
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I do think that I am making efforts to balance out conservative energy, and the false morality and judgmental attitude that I've always felt uncomfortable with. I do like to tease that. Maybe bring a little karmic balance. But I mean it in the most playful way - not antagonistic, not hostile.Rick Owens
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.Gore Vidal
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However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.Evgeny Morozov
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It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a tortured individual to be himself in a hostile society.Sterling Hayden
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.Wayne Dyer
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.Jack Kemp
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Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.Sarah Zettel
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'Life in space is impossible,' we're warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires.Nick Sagan
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.John Berger
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Sometimes you found yourself in conflict or within an area where there's conflict. Some days you just find yourself in danger. Sometimes these things mould you and that's what I mean about hostile environments.Anthony Yarde
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When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.Linda Sanchez
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I don't have the psychological stamina to last under artistic compromises over a prolonged period of time. I get hostile and vindictive. It wears me down.Pernell Roberts
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.Ed Koch
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.William Tecumseh Sherman
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It's interesting to see how 'Arth' still touches a chord in people's hearts all these years later. Men were very hostile when the film was shown in 1984. They were angry and said things like I'm teaching women wrong things by saying they have the choice to walk out of their husband's home if they are cheated upon.Shabana Azmi
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The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.Gad Saad
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.Bertrand Russell
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It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.Jane Goodall
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.George Washington
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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.Wayne Dyer
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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.Norman Mailer
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As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.Stanley Marcus
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?Fatema Mernissi
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I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.Neil Kinnock
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Hostile states' use of proxies in war zones to inflict damage on U.S. interests and troops is a constant, longstanding concern.Gina Haspel
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I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.Michael Heizer
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Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.Tucker Carlson
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Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.Noam Chomsky
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What I call a mimetic crisis is a situation of conflict so intense that on both sides people act the same way and talk the same way even though, or because, they are more and more hostile to each other.Rene Girard
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It doesn't surprise me at all that a Treasury secretary would find a decentralized potential currency... to be hostile to a currency that they control.Francis X. Suarez
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.James T. Walsh
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With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.James Comey
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If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as you, you can be friendly about it, and invite everybody in, or you can be angry about it and be hostile and attack the systems that you want to destabilize.Ezra Furman
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Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.Ehud Olmert
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We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.George W. Bush
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.Damien Chazelle
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Politics still remains a very hostile, unwelcoming place for diverse peoples. It's the reason that we have so few of them in politics.Annamie Paul
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.Napoleon Bonaparte
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.Carl Sagan
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.Bret Stephens
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.W. Somerset Maugham
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One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.Sandra Faber
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No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.Walt Mossberg
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Hudson Yards is a very hostile space for, uh, documentarians.John Wilson
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If we cannot share aspects of our secret work with the public, we should do so with their elected representatives. For CIA oversight is a vital link to the open society we defend. It's a defining feature of the U.S. intelligence community and one of the many things that distinguishes us from the hostile services we face in the field.Gina Haspel
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You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.Lynsey Addario
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Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.Judith Viorst
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We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.James Comey
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.J. M. Roberts
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Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.Muqtada al Sadr
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In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.Joan Didion
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I came out when I was 15 at school, and I realized I had put myself into a precarious situation. It was a very hostile environment for me, and a lot of kids had it in for me. It was a scary situation. I was very impatient. I wanted to grow up now.Jake Shears
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