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«It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
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animosities, animosity, contention, contentions, discourse, General Public, headlined, headlines, taken over, tendency
«Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep the»
Author: Grotowski, Jerzy
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animosities, commented, conflicts, drastic, quarrels, sentiments, The Untouchables, untouchable, untouchables
«Animosity is not a policy»
«But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.»
Author: Herbert Butterfield
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animosities, animosity, delighted, pretext, pretexts, righteousness
«Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.»
«Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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Life
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animosities, animosity, nursing, registering, Too Short, wrongs
«Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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animosities, animosity, contest, perspicacity, sharpen, strengthen, wits
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Lack of faith, treachery, arguments and animosity only breed malevolence. It is in the best interest of all to avoid this and tread on the path of progress.»
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