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The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster
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A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.

Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
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If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.

Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
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Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They have no conviction at all.

Cynthia Hand, Boundless
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To feel attached is to feel safe and secure. By contrast, an insecurely attached person may have a mixture of feelings towards their attachment figure: intense love and dependency, fear of rejection, irritability and vigilance. One may theorise that their lack of security has aroused a simultaneous wish to be close and the angry determination to punish their attachment figure for the minutest sign of abandonment. It is though the insecurely attached person is saying to themselves: 'cling as hard as you can to people - they are likely to abandon you; hang on to them and hurt them if they show signs of going away, then they may be less likely to do so'. This particular pattern of insecure attachment is known as 'ambivalent insecurity'.

Jeremy Holmes, John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
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What does it mean to care? Let me start by saying that the word care has become a very ambivalent word. When someone says: 'I will take care of him!' it is more likely an announcement of an impending attack than of a tender compassion. And besides this ambivalence, the word is most often used in a negative way. 'Do you want coffee or tea?' 'I don't care.' 'Do you want to stay home or go to a movie?' 'I don't care.' 'Do you want to walk or go by car?' 'I don't care.' This expression of indifference toward choices in life has become commonplace. And often it seems that not to care has become more acceptable than to care, and a carefree life-style more attractive than a careful one.

Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
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Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Keith Ablow, Denial
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We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision.

Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!

Václav Havel
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