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• Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Education, Children

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Common, Mutual, Expected

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

  Katie Holmes

  Mean Girls, Hate, Mean People

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• There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

  Freya Stark

  Thinking, Land, Two

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.144, The Overlook Press

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• There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Outsiders, Foreigners

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

  Jane Porter

  Prejudice, Illiterate

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.112

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• ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Inspiration, Inspired

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

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• Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Prejudice, Defense, Natural

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, NYU Press

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• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Ignorance, Army, Suffering

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• My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Hatred, Intellectual

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• I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.

  Richard E. Robbins

  Girl, Careers, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Real, Passion

  Jude the Obscure pt. 4, ch. 1 (1896)

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• German leftists have still not understood the degree to which Russian President Vladimir Putting has drifted to the right domestically. Now, insightful observers are saying that Putin is trying to create something like a reactionary Internationale. The turn toward homophobia and to clerics is completely ignored by leftists in Germany. Their sympathy for Putin comes largely from their antipathy for America. And this anti-Americanism is what binds them with the far-right.

  Heinrich August Winkler

  Insightful, Trying, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Country, White, Racism

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

  George Santayana

  Feelings, Moral, Strongest

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.256, Рипол Классик

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• Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

  David Ruggles

  Wise, Wisdom, Justice

  David Ruggles (1834). “The "extinguisher" Extinguished!: Or, David M. Reese, M.D. "used Up."”, p.13

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• Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sympathy, Sympathetic, Dread

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it.

  Walter Benjamin

  Men, Intellectual, May

  Walter Benjamin (2006). “On Hashish”, p.21, Harvard University Press

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• Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.

  Albert J. Nock

  Political, Mind, Mass

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 88), 1943.

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• If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Kindness, Grateful, Long

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• BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baby, Sex, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Writing, Ignorance, Needs

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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• His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Humanity, Mind, World

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”

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• Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

  Agatha Christie

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Hate

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Fashion, Morning, Clothes

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