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• Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Wrath, Angry Man

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• A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

  Ishmael Reed

  Careers, Perfect, Black

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Digging, Purpose, Truce

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo
  ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Political, United States, Doe

  Condoleezza Rice's remarks at press briefing, August 6, 2006.

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• If somebody responds positively to what I'm doing - if there is a connection - that can be very meaningful. If someone reacts with displeasure, confusion, hostility, well, that is not pleasant, and can often be upsetting.

  Michael Hersch

  Meaningful, Often Is, Confusion

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments. Microsoft is the very embodiment of modern high-tech prosperity - it is, in a word, bourgeois - and so it attracts all of the same gripes.

  Neal Stephenson

  Powerful, Thinking, Two

  "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line". Book by Neal Stephenson, November 9, 1999.

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• More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

  Robert Menzies

  Things In Life, Indifference, Good Things

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• War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

  Bela Kiraly

  Military, War, Reason

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Hands, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Science, Facts

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• Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

  Karl Abraham

  Patient, Affection, Violent

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.62, Karnac Books

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• No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Impossible, Kind

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• The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Circles, Mind, Elements

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

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• Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

  William Goldman

  Wife, Arguing

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.19, A&C Black

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• The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Religious, Neutrality, Constitution

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• The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

  W. H. Auden

  Sex, Heart, Men

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• It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

  Washington Irving

  War, Two Nations, Ill Will

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.54, Penguin

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• To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Men, Miracle

  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Ch. 1, Sect. 1

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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• MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Responsibility, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Expectations, Done, Assassins

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.776, Library of America

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• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  David Swanson

  War, Cities, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the decline of respect for rational scientific thinking. People seem to think that we are ruled by the scientific method and that we overvalue reason. If there was ever a period when we overvalued reason, I think that it was probably extremely brief. What I see now is a great deal of superstition, as much superstition as there has ever been. There are probably more people who believe in guardian angels than who understand the law of gravity.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

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• Anyone that knows me will tell you that any time we're going somewhere, if there's a US flag, they'll always point it out because they know I love it. Just how our whole country started and just the migration of Europeans to this country, all of that, just the history of everything has fascinated me, but my biggest thing is I want people to understand that when there are hostilities between nations there's always two sides.

  Donte Stallworth

  Country, People, Know Me

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