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• I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

  John Green

  Meaningful, Real, Good Friend

  "Read The Heartbreaking Letter The Girl Who Inspired TFIOS Wrote To Her Future Self" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 30, 2014.

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• I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

  Robert W. Service

  Criticism, France, Intense

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• When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Insanity, Different

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Mind, Painful

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

  Robert Morley

  Country, People, France

  1974 A MusingMorley,'France and the French'.

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Jobs, People, Portraits

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• I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Curiosity, Taught, Curious

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• Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.

  Norma Kamali

  Likes And Dislikes, Editing, Choices

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• Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

  James Altucher

  Kissing, Dust, Hands

  "10 Reasons Why You Have To Quit Your Job This Year" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2013.

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• There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Exercise, Feuds

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Judging, Wise Man Once Said

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• It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Cycling, Two, People

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• The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Errors, Differences

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• I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

  Jennifer Egan

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

  Richard Carson

  Different, Likes, Urban

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• What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Attitude, Book, Taken

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• God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

  Josephine Baker

  Brother, Hate, Evil

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• What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

  Thomas Sprat

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Self Improvement

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• My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

  George A. Romero

  Lying, Zombie, World

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• The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Mind, Gold, Modern

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• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, People, Ordinary

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.82, University of Toronto Press

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• When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Finding Yourself, Turns, Ifs

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.

  William O. Douglas

  Book, Home, Government

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