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• Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

  Lord Byron

  Jealousy, World, Shows

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

  Rowan Atkinson

  Atheist, Fear, Teaching

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• I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Mean, Dislike Me, Kind

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Hate, People, Introvert

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.146, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• You love me?" He just looked at me for a moment. And then he reared back his head and laughed, a rich, mellow sound, unreserved and unashamed. " No, not at all. I regularly battle gods for women I dislike!

  Karen Chance

  Battle, Sound, Moments

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon”, p.450, Penguin UK

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• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Likes And Dislikes, Identity

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• If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

  Philip Sidney

  Work, Neglect, Enjoy

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• The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

  Simon Cowell

  Likes And Dislikes, People, Today

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.

  Shirley Jackson

  Dog, Hands, Years

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• Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

  Livy

  Men, Danger, Spite

  Livy (1967). “The early history of Rome: Books I-V of The history of Rome from its foundation”

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• How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

  John Wooden

  People, Enemy, Littles

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• And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Pride, Doors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Who I Am, Passionate

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.165, Anchor

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• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Water, Democracy

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.

  Ajahn Chah

  Pain, Men, Self

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• Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, Powerful, Real

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  Sallust

  Anger, Mind, Firsts

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• There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Coffee, Cereal, Tea

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• Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

  Susanna Clarke

  Men, Gentleman, Magic

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Opposites, Duplicity

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• I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

  George Eliot

  Thinking

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.345, George Eliot

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• If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Air, Selfish People

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• If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Son, Men

  "In praise of idleness: and other essays".

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• Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.96, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.

  Pema Chodron

  Hurt, Clever, Drama

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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