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• Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Free Love

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• I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Order, Opposites, World

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Peace, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

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• The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

  Agnes Repplier

  Party, Political, Greed

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Cities, House

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Country, Effort

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.155

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• You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who are almost crying because they can't believe they're seeing the Rumours five back again, they can't believe their eyes. It's almost like a family reunion on stage, there's no angst, there's no animosity, there's just tremendous amount of friendship.

  Christine McVie

  Believe, Eye, People

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• Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.

  Paul Auster

  Honesty, People, Resentment

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2010.

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• I have no animosity against any living soul.

  Heber J. Grant

  Soul

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• Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

  Dennis Prager

  Wings, Impact, Black

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• How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Calling, Holiness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.505

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• People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

  William III of England

  Country, Thinking, People

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• ... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Differences

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.32

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• All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Mind, Important

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• I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

  Lou Doillon

  Strong, Children, Thinking

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• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

  Daniel De Leon

  Religious, Past, Race

  Daniel De Leon (1915). “Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi”

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• One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

  James Mercer

  Race, Certain, Humans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Church, One Day, Mankind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pigs, Benefits, Waste

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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• In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Individual Happiness, Iron

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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