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Letter "H" » hostility
«It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!»
Author: Anthony de Mello
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Truth
| Keywords:
delight, hostilities, hostility, Human heart, liberation, longs, mystery, reaction
«If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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Enemies
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disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, History of, hostilities, hostility, secret history, with hostility
«Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection.»
Author: Karl Stern
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actively, hostilities, hostility, infant, Learning to, passive, psychoanalysis, recipient, recipients, rejection, rejections, unable
«Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.»
«It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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continually, gradual, hostility, human process, impede, impeded, impedes, impeding, irritation, irritations, readily, scarlet, Scarlet Letter, selfishness, The Scarlet Letter, transformed
«Our heart should be full of compassion and free from negative qualities like hatred, hostility and jealousy. »
Author: Atharva Veda
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hostility
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«It is my most ardent desire, not only to soften the inevitable calamities of war, but even to introduce on every occasion as great a share of tenderness and humanity, as can possibly be exercised in a state of hostility»
«Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
declaring, go into, hostile, hostility, militarism, racism, recapture, recaptured, revolutionary
«I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
altar, eternal, hostilities, hostility, sworn, tyranny, with hostility
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