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• Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

  Trent Zelazny

  Art, Doe, Better Person

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• I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

  Nina Bawden

  Husband, Shoes, Track

  "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve.

  Khem Veasna

  Issues, Citizens

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• While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Things I Love, Said, Clear

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• Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

  Daniel James, Jr.

  Military, War, Warrior

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• To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

  Jane Austen

  Real, Men, Mind

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.193, MobileReference

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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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• Integrity is very important to me. I do what is right, not necessarily what is easy. My dealings with clients are fair and honest. I deal with issues immediately and dislike doing what can be done today, tomorrow.

  Zoran

  Integrity, Issues, Important

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• It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Lonely, Hate, Loneliness

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• The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

  Moliere

  People, Wicked, Vices

  "The Misanthrope and Other Plays". Book by Molière, p. 101, 1959.

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• Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Done, Way

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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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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• A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

  Karl Deutsch

  Errors, Groups, Ancestry

  Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1969). “Nationalism and its alternatives”

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• Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Pirate, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge

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• I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

  Boris Nemtsov

  War, Believe, Ukraine

  "Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield", www.cnn.com. March 2, 2015.

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• No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Sorrow, Emotion

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• Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

  William Ralph Inge

  Admiration, Institutions, Contempt

  William Ralph Inge (1925). “Outspoken essays”

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• It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

  George Santayana

  Affinity, Great Bond

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, MIT Press

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• To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Men, Opposites

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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• I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

  John Steinbeck

  Greatest Fear, People, Sickness

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.710, Penguin

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• Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

  Max Planck

  Science, Ideas, Scientist

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• But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Records, Lasts

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• I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Kids, People, Hatred

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• I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, People, Feelings

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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