Not long ago, Andre Agassi published a thoughtful autobiography in which he revealed his simmering childhood hatred for the sport that propelled him to fame.

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It is permitted for him to reclaim his right without hatred.

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"Preventing hatred of your fellow man, and extending love to him, are the two sides of true liberty, " Peres said as he accepted the medal in a ceremony outside historic Independence Hall.

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When she pulled away, his eyes were open, and she saw, for a brief second, the arrow of his hatred for her and for everything that had happened to him bending back on itself and aiming straight into his own heart.

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Perhaps it would be the last chapter in his search for inner peace that became so important to him after becoming a victim of hatred and violence himself when he was shot and gravely injured in a Laurel, Maryland, shopping center parking lot.

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Mr Connerly's detractors have accused him of everything from McCarthyism to self-hatred to being a Ku Klux Klan sympathiser, but he seems untainted by the paranoid self-righteousness that is so common on the American right.

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Whatever his curmudgeonly nature and his hatred of people says about him, he brought hours of joy to children and parents everywhere, with books at once hauntingly beautiful and surprisingly intelligent.

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He has also won the hatred of optometrists, who are losing the most profitable part of their business to him, and has accumulated more suits than the Duke of Windsor's closet.

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