How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
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How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT.
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
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