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• Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

  Abe Fortas

  Religious, Government, Neutrality

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• Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sleep, Choices, Bed

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries.

  Sandy Adams

  Country, Believe, Mean

  "Sandy Adams, candidate for U.S. House district 24". Interview, dampfang.com. August 18, 2010.

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• We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Development, Blame

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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• I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, Men, Class

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Evil, May

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• Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Spring, Reality, Comedy

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

  Neil Kinnock

  Ideas, Britain, Skeptic

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• The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Wise, Men, Sage

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• Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

  Haim Ginott

  Teenager, Self, Independence

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• If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

  David Lehman

  Writing, Soul, Reviews

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Believe, Moving, Values

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• Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Religious, People, Generosity

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• The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Technology, Friendly

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• We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.

  Hu Jintao

  Long, Plot, Fields

  "China’s President Lashes Out at Western Culture" by Edward Wong, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

  Jamey Johnson

  Dream, People, Way

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• Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.

  Joseph Stalin

  Law, Track, Enemy

  Anti-Semitism: Reply to an inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States, January 12, 1931.

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• In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Thinking, Stories, Might

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.15, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

  John Shelton Reed

  Thinking, Globalization, Regionalism

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• I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

  Sonny Rollins

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Balance

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• Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Country, Ebola, People

  "World Health Organization Declares Guinea Ebola-Free". "Word of Mouth" with Renee Montagne, nhpr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• But even technical work filled with formulas can be valuable and important. Einstein offered a lot of technical work on quantum physics, which mostly eludes me. I refer to his work, and I have studied it, but I am not a physicist. But look at Einstein's simple statement that the most important decision you ever will make is the decision whether you live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe.

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Decision, Friendly

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile.

  Donald Trump

  People, Atmosphere, Staying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

  Ted Cruz

  Reality, Media, Conservative

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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