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Letter "H" » hostile
«The... difference is that of attitude. But that difference determines who gets ideas and who does not. An apathetic or hostile attitude is the enemy of creative thought. Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced.»
«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
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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.»
Author: Lisa Simpson
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acquired, Disney, hallmark, homogenized, homogenizing, hostile, hostile takeover, piece, Piece By Piece, romance, sell off, sold, takeover, takeovers
«The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.»
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity
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«This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.»
«The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
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«The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
appetites, dinners, hostile, striking, The Division
«People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.»
«The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult»
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