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• A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Hate, Writing, Easier

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.239, Algonquin Books

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• It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

  William Butler Yeats

  Enemy, Emotion, Trouble

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences...I f you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

  Sengcan

  Struggle, Mind, Wish

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• People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

  Dean Ornish

  People, Changed

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2012

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• We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Light, Sea

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

  Queen Victoria

  Hate, Good Woman, Occupation

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• I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.

  Julie Andrews

  Past, Judging, People

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• There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

  Barack Obama

  Dislike Me, Ideas, Black

  "Going the Distance". Interview with David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Eight, Dislike Me, Two

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• I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Flower, Passion, Wish

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• I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Artist, Thinking, Musician

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• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  Garth Hudson

  Talking, Creative, Winner

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• There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

  Preston Manning

  School, Media, Personality

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• I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

  Anne Stevenson

  Art, Science, Hygiene

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• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  Rachel Hunter

  Thinking, Feminist, Feminism

  "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and with their families protected, even if they protest publicly against this treatment. Hans Blix may dislike running ''a defection agency,' but that could be the only way to obtain truthful information about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction

  Joe Biden

  Running, Wmd, Agency

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• The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Men

  1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

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• Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Suffering, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Often Is, Likes And Dislikes

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

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• There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

  F. H. Bradley

  Naked, Nudity

  F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

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• Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

  Gerard Way

  People, Dumb, Want

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• I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

  Michael Atiyah

  Creativity, Ideas, Imagination

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• Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, People, Want

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• Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Hate, Passionate

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

  Idries Shah

  Attitude, Trying, Why Not

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd

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