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• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

  Daniel Webster

  Inspirational, Management, Argument

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• The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

  Dave Thomas

  Sex, Men, Building Up

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• You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

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• If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Causes, Ridiculous, Terrible

  Jeremy Taylor (1859). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry”, p.224

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• Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.

  Theognis of Megara

  Revenge, Passion, Long

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• Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

  John Locke

  Revenge, Mind, Purpose

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.148

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• I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Summer, Dog, Strong

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• Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Invention, Ovens

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

  John Robinson

  Frustration, Broken, Interesting

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• I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

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• There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

  Allen Boyd

  Hard Work, Bitterness, Heal

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• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  School, Differences, Tolerance

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• Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Society, Identity, Social Behavior

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

  Max Cannon

  People, Society, Injustice

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• It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational Love, Hate, Irritation

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.300, Library of America

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• There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Poetry = Anger x Imagination

  Sherman Alexie

  Imagination

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

  Anne Rice

  Lying, Weakness, Done

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• The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Differences

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• These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  Yann Martel

  Heart, People, Evil

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.110, Canongate Books

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• Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

  Evan Esar

  Feelings, Mind, Mouths

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• I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, People, Share

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• Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.

  Judy Tenuta

  Friendship, Bad Friend, Enemy

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• It is good for society to have this introspection.

  Jacques Verges

  Society, Introspection

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• Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

  Peter Medawar

  Growing Up, Hunting, Society

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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