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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

~Aaron Eckhart

Topics: Cruel Men Tender Think Versa Vice Vice Versa Women I Think

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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

~Ahmed Ben Bella

Topics: Army Colonial Colonialism Cruel Foreign Form Indonesia Known Lasted Occupations Permanent Phase Policies Powers Primitive Repressive Say Services Settling Which Years

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Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

~Albert Bandura

Topics: Appropriate Conditions Cruel Decent Extraordinarily Given Led Ordinary Ordinary People People Social Things

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It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

~Albert Bandura

Topics: Ability Compassionate Cruel Engage Explain Helps How Moment Moral Next Our People Standards

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This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

~Albert Brooks

Topics: Because Cruel Dog Ending Envy Getting Getting Old Know Knows Like Living Look Me Old She Sixteen Something Still Think Thinking Trick I Think

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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: American Cruel Dollar Even Libel Look Many Themselves Too Us

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I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

~Alexei Sayle

Topics: Cruel Humour Ideas Kind Quite Random Really Sense Springs Therefore Think World I Think

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Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

~Alfred Stieglitz

Topics: Beautiful Come Could Cruel Dreams Live More Must People Relentless Suppose True Were World Would

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It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Ancestors Attempts Because Been Behavior Brutality Characterized Cruel Despicable Erase Identify Israel Land Lawless My Own Own Palestinians People Recognize Sadistic Treated Which I Can

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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Any Breaks Cruel Divisive Heart Kind Loving Needs Often Our Our World Suffering Too Where World

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