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• If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Other Worlds, Anxiety

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• Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Lying, Winning

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• With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Heart, Cosmos

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• Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'

  Tom Standage

  Prejudice, World, Earth

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• The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Attitude, School, Presidential

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• Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.

  Tom Gjelten

  Groups, Jew, Immigrants

  "Devout Muslim Preaches His Love For America". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. October 6, 2015.

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• Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

  Dan Savage

  Needs, Faces, Contributing

  "Bisexuals: You Need to Come Out to Your Friends and Spouses - Now" by Dan Savage, www.thestranger.com. June 22, 2011.

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• Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

  Tracy Thompson

  Pain, Airplane, Suicidal

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• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sibling, Office, Political

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• I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Father, Men, My Best Friend

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• The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

  Adam Hasner

  Israel, Disrespect, United States

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• This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them.

  Michael Medved

  People, Politics, Feels

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• On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Pioneers, Sides

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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• The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Unique, Opportunity

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.54, The New Press

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• Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

  Stanley Milgram

  Jobs, People, Ordinary

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

  Paul Bowles

  Thinking, People, Ego

  Paul Bowles, Jeffrey Miller (2014). “In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Helping Others, Love Is

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Long, Enemy

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• The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender - surrender their defenses, their hostilities. And once you make an audience laugh, they're with you. And they listen to you if you've got something to say. I have a theory that if you can make them laugh, they're your friends.

  Frank Capra

  People, Laughing, Defense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

  Matt Groening

  Anxiety, Doe, Good And Bad

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

  J. K. Bharavi

  Flying, Enmity, Rivals

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• We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

  Abraham Maslow

  World, Able, Lost

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• The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.

  Ted Gup

  White, House, Healthy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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