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I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.

~Debbie Reynolds

Topics: Able About Allow Anybody Anything Because Bitter Bitterness Ever Filled Hate Heart Like Love Never Open Stay Then Think To Love You Your

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I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

~Dick Gephardt

Topics: Bitterness Destructive Explain Forgiveness Had Hatred Heard Him His Honor Love Mandela Meet Nelson Nelson Mandela Power Saying Years

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Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

~Donald Sutherland

Topics: Amount Bitterness Certain Fire Much Someone Though Too Too Much Tries You

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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

~Edith Cavell

Topics: Anyone Bitterness Enough Hatred Must Patriotism Realize Towards

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Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

~Ehud Olmert

Topics: Alienation Been Bitterness Camps Decades Deep Disconnected Environment Grew Humiliation Living Many Neglect Palestinians Poverty Sense Up Which

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You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

~Emil Zatopek

Topics: Aim Bitterness Climb Enthusiasm Floor Fulfill Goal Gradually High Ladder Raise Reasonable Second Set Then Too Try Turns Up Without You Your

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I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

Topics: Bitterness Bring Injustice Many Men Men And Women Personally Realisation Social Social Injustice Sorrow Suffered Which Women

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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Bitterness Ends Expect Life Much Sentimental Softness Too Too Much View

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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: About Anger Bitterness Concerns Fed Fed Up Generation Jobs Lack Lot Next Next Generation Out People Things Up Way

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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

~George Steiner

Topics: Act Anger Baffled Bitterness Books Cleverness Creation Fills Hurry Infinitely Me Notion Occasion Our Privileges Reads Us

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