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“Family often becomes a source of pain when there is disharmony and acrimony amongst the family members. Living with the same family then becomes hell instead of heaven, especially when love and trust is lost.”

Love Lost Heaven Family Disharmony Acrimony

Book:31 Ways to Happiness

Source: 31 Ways to Happiness

“Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.”

Settling Ridicule Acrimony

Author:Horace

“It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.”

Judgment Mediums Discussion Flames Insult Hobbies Degenerates Trivia Acrimony

Author:Clifford Stoll

“However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.”

Equal Devil Worthy Deep Down Caprice Insolence Acrimony

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.”

May Suffering Deals Behinds Air Scene Conversation Criticism Congress Opposition Disagree Our Relationship Chamber Partisans Cement Behind The Scenes Acrimony

Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison

“I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.”

Thinking Goes On Band Surface Assumption Brewing Hiatus Acrimony

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This has made the substance and tone of much of the discussion not only unpleasant and uninspiring, but the acrimony and divisiveness are not healthy for our democracy.”

Should Trying Made Emotion Leader Democracy Healthy Negative Campaigns Substance Discussion Tone Rise Above Negative Emotions Divisiveness Uninspiring Acrimony

Author:John I. Jenkins

“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”

Source: George Washington on religious liberty and mutual understanding: selections from Washington's letters

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.”

Christian Religion Fighting Causes Religious Atheism Spring Hatred Productive Enlightened Controversy Acrimony

Author:George Washington

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.”

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.”

Understanding Pleasure Failing Heard Entertainment Triumph Enlightened Resentment Devoted Superiority Discourse Assertion Weariness Insulted Insolent Pedants Usurpation Acrimony

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.”

Source: The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.”