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«Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.»
«[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(Activist)
| Keywords:
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«To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
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«People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.»
«There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.»
Author: Pete Hamill
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«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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«Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Best friend
| Keywords:
ascribe, motives, praised, sinister, tincture
«We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.»
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