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• Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nuts, Wings, Bird

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Son, Men

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.172, Stanford University Press

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• The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Weight, Lockers

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• The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Motivation, Mean, Media

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

  Allen West

  Philosophy, Worry, Care

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• Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Vulnerable, Aggressive

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• Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Favors, Should

  Los Angeles Times, letter to the editor by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, May 13, 1985.

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• The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  White, Space, House

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  War, Circles, Knowing

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• There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Punishment, Evil

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 11, 2014

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• And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Ideas, Savages

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.556, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stupid, Romance, Heartless

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.471, Diversion Books

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• Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

  Theodore Millon

  Party, Circles, Point Break

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• Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

  John William Fletcher

  Vices, World, Piety

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• And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

  Ernest Gaines

  School, Men, Years

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.62, Vintage

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• I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Growing Up, Writing

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

  Josh Marshall

  Government, Two, Giving

  "I Was Finally Able". Talking Points Memo, talkingpointsmemo.com. January 17, 2006.

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• In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.

  Virginie Despentes

  Children, School, Kids

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• Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

  Dave Barry

  Love, Couple, Emotional

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

  Phil Plait

  Inspiration, Tired, Ignorance

  "The Mainstreaming of Crazy". Blog at Discover magazine, blogs.discovermagazine.com. September 08, 2009.

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Law, Giving

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Years, People, Quality

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• A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Eye, Bird, Towns

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.

  Will Smith

  Evil, Killers, Responsible

  "Will Smith Explains Hitler Quote" by Karen Salkin, people.com. December 26, 2007.

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