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• Payne Stewart was a vicious competitor. He only played to win, ... Only God can change hearts.

  Paul Azinger

  Heart, Winning, Competitors

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• Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1095, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• You know, l don't kid myself about the show. If it doesn't get ratings, it's off. Look, if I came up with the cure for cancer and it didn't get ratings, they wouldn't put it on. That's how vicious that business is.

  Donald Trump

  Cancer, Kids, Looks

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• When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.

  Malcolm X

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, New York, Cities

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.401, Penguin UK

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• I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  School, Men, Russia

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• There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Thinking, People

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• We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

  Tommy Douglas

  Opponents, Underestimate, Forget

  Tommy Douglas' address at the Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.

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• War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Racket

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press

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• Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Feelings

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Religious, Character

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• The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Thieves

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “North to the Rails: A Novel”, p.16, Bantam

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• In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Taken, Passion, Men

  "The works of Alexander Hamilton".

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• There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

  Margaret Mahy

  Two, People, Suffering

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• “I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Order, Roof, Prove

  "The Wise Man's Fear". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 1, 2011.

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• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, People, Needs

  Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, April 17, 1787.

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• To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Procrastination, Men, Views

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.294

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• People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Melting, World

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

  Sarah Schulman

  School, Rights, Media

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• Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Degrees, Virtue

  Alexander Pope (1848). ““The” Select Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author”, p.194

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• I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Growing Up, Writing

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Eye, Bird, Towns

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Cheating

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• There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Anger, Enemy, Emotion

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• No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine through

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Strong, Rain, Wind

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