"Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by……" — Laozi
"Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
— Dee Hock
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...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.
— Unknown Author
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Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
— Jonathan Lethem
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One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the…
— Yvon Chouinard
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I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.
— Jim Clyburn
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Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope…
— John Milton
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Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish…
— Whittaker Chambers
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Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in…
— DeWitt Wallace
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New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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