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• A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Men, Comparison

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• The problem is people become so angry. And they become so vicious.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Problem, Angry

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Solitude, Dull

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.45, Victor Hugo

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• No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Virtue

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• the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Disease, Privilege, Results

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

  Juvenal

  Circles, Example, Authority

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• Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Demon, Habit

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• Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, People, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ordinary World, Creative, Virtue

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• I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Children, Choices, Defeat

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 02, 2013

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• The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

  Robin Morgan

  Believe, Oppression, Aspect

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

  Alison Bechdel

  Genius, Found, Grew

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dance, Daughter, Sex

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.39, 谷月社

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• We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Uplifting, Moving, Tears

  Michael Eric Dyson (2009). “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America”, p.231, Basic Books

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• He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

  Isabel Allende

  Arrogance, Ignorant, Quality

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• And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Ideas, Savages

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.556, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stupid, Romance, Heartless

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.471, Diversion Books

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• For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.

  Sanal Edamaruku

  Reality, Circles, Addiction

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• There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Punishment, Evil

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 11, 2014

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• Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Vulnerable, Aggressive

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• Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, May, Human Nature

  Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Jan.1787-May 1788”

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• The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Weight, Lockers

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• The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  White, Space, House

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Favors, Should

  Los Angeles Times, letter to the editor by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, May 13, 1985.

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• She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Sibling, Order

  Fay Weldon (1997). “Worst Fears”, p.130, Atlantic Monthly Press

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