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• A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Men, Comparison

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• The problem is people become so angry. And they become so vicious.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Problem, Angry

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

  Juvenal

  Circles, Example, Authority

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• the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Disease, Privilege, Results

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Demon, Habit

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• Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, People, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Virtue

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ordinary World, Creative, Virtue

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• Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Solitude, Dull

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.45, Victor Hugo

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• I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Children, Choices, Defeat

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 02, 2013

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• The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

  Robin Morgan

  Believe, Oppression, Aspect

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

  Alison Bechdel

  Genius, Found, Grew

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Uplifting, Moving, Tears

  Michael Eric Dyson (2009). “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America”, p.231, Basic Books

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• He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

  Isabel Allende

  Arrogance, Ignorant, Quality

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• She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Sibling, Order

  Fay Weldon (1997). “Worst Fears”, p.130, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Machines, Cycles, Washing

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• I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fighting, Punishment, Trying

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.226, Penguin

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• I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The Black and the Brown." Is that an accident? I don't think so. We are being designed to be destroyed - and unless we see that, and come together as a people under vicious attack we will suffer the consequences of evil that's in high places.

  Louis Farrakhan

  School, Thinking, People

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.

  Keri Russell

  Children, Smart, Teenager

  Source: deadline.com

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• A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Men, Gossip

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• For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.

  Sanal Edamaruku

  Reality, Circles, Addiction

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• The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.

  Harry Hay

  Country, Practice, California

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, May, Human Nature

  Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Jan.1787-May 1788”

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• Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

  Farley Mowat

  Animal, Men, Quality

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dance, Daughter, Sex

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.39, 谷月社

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