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• If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Crush, Military, Enemy

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  Xunzi

  Successful, Men, Scholar

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.179, Stanford University Press

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• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  Cara Delevingne

  Talking, Joy, Lovely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  Natalie Dormer

  Character, Way, Intriguing

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• The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

  John Gibbons

  Party, Priorities, Political

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• My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

  Marianne Williamson

  Father, Justice, Fighter

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

  Vashti Bunyan

  People, Giving, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Strong, Mean, Learning

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• The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have the death-dealing quality of autumn but lack the life-giving quality of spring. How can they develop people then?

  Zicheng Hong

  Spring, Autumn, People

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• You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon during the family vacation. Why does it work? Why did it stick?And there is an answer.When they [Democrates] ran the ads about guy's wife dying with cancer...? Remember this? This was a serious series of ads, and it was deadly effective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Dog, Cancer

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things they say, but that isn't going to work on Trump the way it works on conservatives, for a whole host of reasons.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Years, Way

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Sports, Feelings, Cheerful

  "The U.S. Yoga Federation Founder + President Rajashree Choudhury". Interview with Zoë Kors. Part I, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Tired, Despair

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Independent, Self, Preparation

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Honesty, Lying, Believe

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• I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

  Frank Gehry

  Hate, Mean, Stuff

  Source: www.playboy.com

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• I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.

  Jim Goad

  Twelve, Sense Of Humor, Melbourne

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I know my girlfriend is free-spirited. I know she's so charming that it's disarming. I get it. And I know that every man is going to fall in love with her.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Girlfriend, Falling In Love, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

  John Frusciante

  Beautiful, Song, Atmosphere

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• I don't want [to work] people who agree with me. I want honest, spirited, hard-working, patriotic people who want to be part of a team, the American team.

  Hillary Clinton

  Team, Hard Work, Patriotic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Mean, Survivor, Conflict

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.

  Amy Schumer

  Children, Cancer, Writing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Support, Looks

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• A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, “I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win.” The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, “I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

  Jon Gordon

  Wise, Dog, Mean

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.50, John Wiley & Sons

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