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"Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it." »George Saintsbury
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." »Thomas Jefferson
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational." »Scott Adams
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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." »Bharavi
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"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." »Lisa Hoffman
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"It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species." »Doctor Who
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"How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values" »Alan Greenspan
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." »Albert Schweitzer
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"irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers." »Cyril Connolly
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"In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle." »Colin Wilson
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"Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied." »Edmund S. Morgan
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream." »Edgar Allan Poe
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"The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational." »Sydney Harris
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"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness." »George Jean Nathan
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom." »Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
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"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large." »Plato
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"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science." »Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
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"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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