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"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."
"I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood"."
"A strenuous soul hates cheap success."
"Whom they have injured they also hate."
"I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago."
"Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists."
"...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin."
"By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself."
"If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another."
"Who taught you to hate yourself?"
"I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past."
"I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it."
"I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love."
"There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise."
"A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear."
"There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey."
"See with eyes unclouded by hate."
"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."
