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• [The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

  George Washington

  Party, Community, Alarms

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.8

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• A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.

  James Madison

  Party, Passion, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

  James Madison

  Strong, Fall, Passion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

  Primo Levi

  Philosophical, Firsts, Virtue

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• Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Race, Honor, Church

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• Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.

  James Cook

  Self, Class, Goal

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• I mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation tendency, because you don't just reciprocate affection, you reciprocate animosity, and the whole thing can escalate. And so huge insanities can come from just subconsciously over-weighing the importance of what you're losing or almost getting and not getting.

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Mean, People

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

  Dennis Hastert

  Party, Political, Needs

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• Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.

  Charles Dickens

  Sex, Surprising

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house: With illustr. by H. K. Browne”, p.526

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• In the beginning, you tamp down the animosity for the kids' sake. I'm not going to deny that I went through the wringer. But I don't think I doubted we'd end up here. That was always my dream, that the kids can have two loving parents that show respect for each other. And I feel that's what they have.

  Elin Nordegren

  Dream, Kids, Divorce

  "Elin Nordegren Breaks Her 4-Year Silence on Tiger Woods" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. May 21, 2014.

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• A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

  A. J. Liebling

  Principles, Louisiana, Politician

  Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press

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• It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than himself. That's why so much animosity exists on the Internet. Those who aren't able to find a more miserable person turn to the Internet and call other people losers, even though they've never met just to make themselves superior. Isn't that pathetic? There's a sense of security that comes from speaking badly of someone else. But that isn't true salvation.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  People, Miserable Person, Loser

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• When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: “drones.”

  Medea Benjamin

  Country, United States, Drones

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• Return animosity with virtue.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Taoism, Return

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• There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

  Roald Dahl

  Character, Mean, Generosity

  "New Statesman" Magazine, 1983.

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• The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

  Barack Obama

  Grandmother, White, Racism

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• The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

  George Washington

  Hatred, Degrees, Affection

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality...

  George Washington

  Party, Character, Eye

  George Washington's Inaugural Address, www.archives.gov. April 30, 1789.

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• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Appreciation, Government, People

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Writing, Law, History

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• Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Nursing, Together

  "Jane Eyre". Ch. 6. Book by Charlotte Bronte, 1847.

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• To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their love. On the one hand, they are living a sort of dream; on the other, without realizing it, they are drawing up the fine print of their contracts like the most hard-nosed of lawyers. O lovers! Be wary during those perilous first days! If you serve the other party breakfast in bed, you will be obliged to continue same in perpetuity or face charges of animosity and treason!

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Party, Drawing

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• Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

  Yelawolf

  Chips, Yeah, Shoulders

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• The person who killed my son, I have no animosity for that person at all.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Son, My Son, Persons

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• Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.

  Oswald Mosley

  Struggle, Fighting, Land

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “The Greater Britain”, p.132, Black House Publishing Ltd

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