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• Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

  Yana Toboso

  Feelings, Kicking, Enjoy

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• Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

  John Galsworthy

  Life, Men, Voice

  John Galsworthy (2015). “Beyond”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Too Much, Reason

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• Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

  Joseph Brodsky

  Conversation, Explaining

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• I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

  Hilary Mantel

  Attention, Language, Pastiche

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• As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.

  George Muller

  Brother, Father, Self

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Vol. 2, part 4". Book by George Müller, 1855.

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• I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

  Bill Nighy

  Process, Animation

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• The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

  Ben Okri

  Law, Police, World

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.6, Head of Zeus

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• I don't dislike anybody.

  Joel Osteen

  "John Brennan talks War on Terror; Joel and Victoria Osteen's message of hope". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2012.

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• There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Worry, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

  Samuel Richardson

  Please, Can Do

  Samuel Richardson (1990). “Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life”

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• Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

  Samuel Richardson

  Appreciate, Reason, Hundred

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V: Samuel Richardson Collections”, p.151, 谷月社

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• The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Children, Likes And Dislikes

  John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

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• Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Awakened

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• You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Strong, Likes And Dislikes, People

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• At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

  Saul Bellow

  Noses, Faces, Lips

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

  George Washington

  Art, Real, People

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.90

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• In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Respect, Fear, Men

  "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life". Forbes magazine, 1950.

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• I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him for Whose service they were undertaken and remembering that Our Lord would be praised and the most Holy Sacrament would dwell in the house I was going to found... It should be a great consolation to us - though many of us do not think of it - that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, dwells as He does in so many places in the most Holy Sacrament

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Journey, Men

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• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

  Seneca the Elder

  Greatness, Mind, Excess

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• I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Pain, Loneliness, Solitude

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• How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Successful, Men, Order

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• What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Differences, Doe

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• The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this means, and by all other means, he should endeavor to make his first important discovery: he should discover his likes and dislikes, his taste, his own line.

  George Polya

  Mean, Science, Discovery

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• The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Honor, Groups, Conflict

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