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• Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Pain, Past

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• Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.

  Paul the Apostle

  Integrity, Teaching, Yield

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• The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Character, Crowds, Mimicry

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• How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).

  Daphne Merkin

  Thinking About You, People, Broken

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• ... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Happy, Kindness

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• But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Mean, Fighting

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.364, Routledge

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• Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Errors, Solitude

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.37, Routledge

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• My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

  Roberta Flack

  Anger, Today, Coalitions

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• There is a cottage industry of these Muslim bashers who are training law enforcement personnel, military personnel... and you are breeding a generation of leaders in our society who have this suspicion of Islam and hostility towards American Muslims and Muslims in general. The intention of these trainers is to demonise Islam and to marginalise American Muslims.

  Ibrahim Hooper

  Military, Law, Leader

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• The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

  John Hagee

  Children, Book, Home

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• If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Self Esteem, Fighting

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• The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!

  John Henry Jowett

  God, Children, Fall

  John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

  Crystal Eastman

  Fighting, Agitation, Indifference

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

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• The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

  Alec Guinness

  Men, Good Man, Applause

  Alec Guinness (1998). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Penguin Mass Market

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• I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Mind

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• Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  Myrna Loy

  Sex, Expression, Looks

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

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• For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

  Kelly McGillis

  Anger, Long, People

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

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• For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Hollywood

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

  Eugen Weber

  Fascists, Capitalism, One Thing

  "Varieties of Fascism: Doctrine of Revolution in the Twentieth Century" by Eugen Weber, Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, (p. 47), 1964.

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• When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Wall, Father

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

  Hermann Hesse

  Patience, Revenge, People

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