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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"If you have a thought of hate, imagine a source that is responsible for creating everything in the Universe that's operating on hate. It wouldn't create things that it hated."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be."

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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."

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Tanith Lee Author
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"I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes."

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