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• Payne Stewart was a vicious competitor. He only played to win, ... Only God can change hearts.

  Paul Azinger

  Heart, Winning, Competitors

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• Still, vicious or virtuous,
  Love suits most of us.

  Philip Larkin

  Love, Suits, Virtuous

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

  Robin Williams

  Done, Ugly, Locals

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• So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

  Jeff Weiner

  Obfuscation, Transparency, Virtuous

  "JEFF WEINER: LinkedIn Doesn't Leak Because We Treat Employees Like Adults" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.

  David Hume

  Spring, Men, Luxury

  David Hume (1809). “Essays, moral, political, and literary”, p.297

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• You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Taken, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

  Kenneth Burke

  People, Progress, Enlightenment

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• But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

  Nigella Lawson

  Literature, Injustice, Sentences

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• The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Problem, Being The Best

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Opportunity, Temptation, Action

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.15, 谷月社

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• I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.

  Alexa Chung

  Bullying, Hate, Littles

  "Alexa Chung Wants Online Bullying to Stop" by Sharon Clott, www.thecut.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

  Mikky Ekko

  Writing, Style, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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• If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Hate, Eye, Circles

  "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

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• The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Money, Defense, Fragility

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• Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

  Al-Jahiz

  Character, Men, Crow

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• God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

  John Milton

  Growth, Virtue, Virtuous

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

  Wayne LaPierre

  Country, Games, People

  Wayne LaPierre's Speech after the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, hollywoodlife.com. December 21, 2012.

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• As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

  Emanuel Celler

  Hate, Europe, Circles

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Religious, Character

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• Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Money, New York, Children

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Thieves

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “North to the Rails: A Novel”, p.16, Bantam

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• so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?

  Anne Roe

  Believe, Men, Long

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• You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

  Howard Stern

  Fire, Careers, Narcissistic

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