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• Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.

  Ali Khamenei

  Israel, Middle East, Entity

  Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir, twitter.com. September 02, 2010.

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• My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Fats, True People

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Bears, Fortune

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• Making night hideous.

  William Shakespeare

  Night

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

  Storm Jameson

  Jealousy, Mind, Suffering

  Storm Jameson (1946). “The other side”, New York, The Macmillan company

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• the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Struggle, Heart, Religion

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”

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• I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

  Maeve Binchy

  Flower, Bird, Guilt

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• The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Delight, Mass, Bravo

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Blood, Heaven

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Lying, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.158, Penguin

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• When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may' be 'slightly' less hideous. But it is all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.

  Gary L. Francione

  Feel Better, Animal, Agriculture

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• UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Gorgeous, Tales, Spun

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• With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Light, Skins

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.502

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• As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Night, Men

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.78

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• You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Stars, Love You

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Idleness

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• War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
  We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
  Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant:
  Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Loss, Sea

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• I knew the poor,
  I knew the hideous death they die,
  when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
  I knew the rich,
  sated with merriment,
  who yet are sad.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Knowledge, Doors

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.

  Flora Tristan

  Organization, Bears, Doe

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• My theory on Jenks: The guys look really good from afar, but once they come up to our table they are jacked hideous. It reminds me of the aquarium next door to Jenks, where it's just good to look. The moment you tap on the glass and make them come to you, it just freaks you out.

  JWoww

  Glasses, Doors, Aquariums

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• Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.

  Jerry Hall

  Children, Thinking, Mirrors

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• If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church Bells, Blood, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wrinkles, Together, Made

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• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Devil, Doe, Would Be

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• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

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