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• What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Hangover, Looks

  Berenice Abbott (1944). “A guide to better photography”

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• The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons.'

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Jesus, Thinking, Wife

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• freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Dream, Captivity

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.277, Granta Books

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• The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Math, Science, Arrogance

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• One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

  Mike Leigh

  Jobs, Beverly Hills, Hollywood

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.

  Marlon Brando

  Hate, Real, Thinking

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• And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Healthy, Noise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

  Justinian I

  Soul, Doctrine, Fabulous

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• I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  War, Connected, Has Beens

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

  Mara Liasson

  Voters, Establishment, Candidates

  "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, wkms.org. March 6, 2016.

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• I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Punishment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.

  Mike Pence

  Children, Party, Taken

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's anathema to what people say that America stands for.

  Jumaane Williams

  Men, America, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say - they differ on the timing: We say it's already there; they say that if we don't do something different, we're going to face apartheid.

  Phyllis Bennis

  Different, Faces, Timing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

  Wole Soyinka

  Ideas, Calling, Constant

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that which has been handed down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God...let him be anathema.

  Pope Martin I

  Father, Apostolic Church, Catholic

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• Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Fear, Adventure

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• If anyone says that the one Jesus Christ who is both true Son of God and true Son of man did not know the future or the day of the Last Judgment and that he could know only as much as the divinity, dwelling in him as in another, revealed to him, anathema sit.

  Pope Vigilius

  Jesus, Son, Men

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• In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

  E. M. Forster

  Atheist, Thinking, Church

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• Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Writing, Originality, Virtue

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

  Courtney Love

  Believe, Important, Pitchforks

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.

  Mike Huckabee

  Rights, Law, White

  "Huckabee: Michael Brown acted like a 'thug'" By Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

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• It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

  William John Locke

  Girl, Husband, Kissing

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition

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• An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

  Alain de Botton

  Teacher, Writing, Careers

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Animal, Mourning

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