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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Philip Yancey

Broken, Agents, World

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A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

Stefan Zweig

Sweet, Firsts, Rich

Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.76, Pushkin Press

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The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.

Peter Benchley

Ocean, Book, Animal

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Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

Francis Crick

Ideas, Collaboration, Candid

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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

George Perkins Marsh

Nature, Science, Men

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Leon Trotsky

Art, Bridges, Hands

Leon Trotsky (1925). “Literature and Revolution”, p.181, Haymarket Books

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So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.

E. Howard Hunt

Pigs, Air, Promise

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Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

Sarah Zettel

Life, Challenges, Fiction

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It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected. Because they fight against and are hostile towards the Muslims, they annulled the protection of his blood and his property.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Islamic, Fighting, Israel

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Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

Roger Ebert

Long, Earth, Way

Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Andy Hargreaves

Leadership, Learning, Ideas

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Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

Keith Johnstone

Teacher, Children, Teaching

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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Pablo Picasso

Magic, World, Strange

Anne Baldassari, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997). “Picasso and photography: the dark mirror”, Flammarion-Pere Castor

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Life expects of you duties which appear repugnant to you. You must now know that the most important thing is not duties but what permits you to be someone good and just. There are many who will say to you that this is a piece of asocial advice, but you only have to reply to them: When the forms of society are so hard and hostile to life, it is more important to be asocial than inhuman

Stig Dagerman

Advice, Important, Pieces

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The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, “Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.

Alberto Villoldo

Rain, Passion, Creativity

Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Shaman, Healer, Sage”, p.78, Random House

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When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

Ellen Goodman

Toothpaste, Middle, Persons

Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.

Stan Freberg

Littles, Able, Now And Then

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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

James T. Walsh

Courage, War, Hero

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In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

Edward Everett

Break Up, Atoms, Elements

Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.655, Рипол Классик

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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

Military, War, 4th Of July

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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Gore Vidal

Business, Teenager, Adults

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Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

Lewis Thomas

Views, People, Survival

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Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

James Surowiecki

Rocks, Musical, Punk

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I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

John Shelby Spong

Thinking, Self, Looks

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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

Yeardley Smith

Funny Valentines Day, Romantic Love, Romance

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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