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• Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, Support You, Issues

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it's simply appalling. Thank God there are no windows on that floor, because if I were a size 18, I'd throw myself right out the window [after seeing those clothes]. It's insulting what these designers do to these women.

  Tim Gunn

  Mean, Thinking, Clothes

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Monsters, Frankenstein's Monster, Form

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)

  Paul Dickson

  Angel, Past, Impact

  "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".

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• Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Knowing, Violence

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• I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Song, Art

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• The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Age, Violence

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

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• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Children, Wall, Hate

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• Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your sister can turn people to stone.' Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, boy! That was Medusa's curse alone. she was the most hideous one in the family. She got all the luck!" Stheno looked hurt. "Mother said I was the most hideous.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Hurt, Sorry

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• True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

  Shusaku Endo

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• Be honest, how hideous do I look?" He took another step back and pursed his lips. "That bad, huh?" I muttered. No, no Bella. Actually. . ." He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look. . .sexy." I laughed out loud. "Right." Very sexy, really.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sexy, Struggle, Looks

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• Why Alexia that is quite beautiful. It does ot reflect your customary taste at all approved Miss Hisselpenny with glee. Trust Ivy to like the hideous thing for it's looks.

  Gail Carriger

  Beautiful, Ivy, Missing

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• There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.

  Donna Tartt

  Lying, Smell, People

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• I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Sight, Feet

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• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Men, Suffering

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it is. But as I journey into the night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs.

  Suzanne Collins

  Night, Journey, Wings

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• But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Successful, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.7, Diversion Books

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• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

  Victor Hugo

  Depressing, Struggle, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Nature, Voice

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Magazines, Tabloids

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• I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

  Hugo Weaving

  Country, Reality, Thinking

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• It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.

  Michael Kors

  Race, Today

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• Everything to do with time is hideous.

  Robert Aickman

  Robert Aickman (2014). “Cold Hand in Mine”, p.203, Faber & Faber

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• My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mean, Destination, Solve

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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