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And people were like, "We knew they were vicious.
So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world, where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people, including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.
There was one country, though, which was able to escape or stay away from that vicious cycle.
But of course, that only gives them temporary respite, because they just grow back more vicious than before.
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy.
But that puts us into a vicious cycle, because without revealing empathy, it makes everything harder.
And then he's about to become a victim of a vicious smash-and-grab.
In 1913, we had this ugly battle over the Federal Reserve, when it was created, with vicious, angry arguments over how it would be constituted, and a general agreement that the way it was constituted was the worst possible compromise, a compromise guaranteed to destroy this valuable thing, this dollar, but then everyone agreeing, okay, so long as we're on the gold standard, it should be okay.
And this became a vicious cycle that ended up causing so much pain and joint issues, I had trouble holding anything.
We all know a lot of the statistics, but just to repeat one of them, median income in America has actually gone down over the past 15 years, and we're in danger of getting trapped in some vicious cycle where inequality and polarization continue to go up over time.
In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, mistrust and misunderstanding had been established, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation.
And in a study done in Canada, researchers planted the false memory that when you were a kid, something as awful as being attacked by a vicious animal happened to you, succeeding with about half of their subjects.
And this vicious cycle goes on, goes on.
While supportive comments poured in from across the world, as did vicious ones.
The media was caught in this vicious cycle of opinion and outburst and no outcome whatsoever.
Just a vicious downward spiral.
Child marriages prolong the vicious cycle of poverty, poor health, lack of education.
Aristophanes’ vicious and often obscene mockery held these leaders to account, testing their commitment to the city.
If civilians are killed, if communities are targeted, this will feed a vicious circle of war, conflict, trauma and radicalization, and that vicious circle is at the center of so many of the security challenges we face today.
And then the act of trying to remember can itself be a stressor, leading to a vicious cycle of more corticosteroid release and an even smaller chance of remembering.
It's a vicious circle.
I was tired of the vicious cycle, and I was tired of it even in the beloved agency in the department that I still love today.
What if your body itself was driving this vicious onslaught?
But the same goes for that, then we're in the vicious circle of actually coming up with ideas but being frustrated.
And so the fines stack up, and you're caught in a vicious cycle of selling sex to pay the fines you got for selling sex.
Cluster bomb use creates a vicious circle of impact on communities, and not only the lives of their victims.
So, you get this vicious cycle.
In Britain, we have a particularly vicious section of the right-wing press, and they went nuts.
So we're in this vicious, habitual cycle.
What would happen if we broke this vicious cycle?
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