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• I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.

  Harold Brodkey

  Men, Homosexual

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• The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

  Ashley Montagu

  Religious, Fear, Science

  "Science and Creationism". Book by Ashley Montagu (Introduction, p. 9), 1984.

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• Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

  James A. Baldwin

  Anger, Add, Contempt

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• Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

  Ding Ling

  Happiness, Happy, Struggle

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• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Opposites, Play

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• Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

  Gary Barlow

  Anger, Picnics, Annoying

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• In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

  John Lyly

  Anger, Shadow, Substance

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.20, Psychology Press

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• The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Powerful, Equality, Suffering

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Anger, Sound, Calm

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• I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Death, Mother, Atheist

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

  Holly Near

  Death, Fear, Killing Someone

  "Foolish Notion" (song) (1981)

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• For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes.

  Pema Chodron

  Mother, Children, Animal

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

  Mark Twain

  Baseball, Struggle, Expression

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches”

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• Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Gangsta, Media

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• Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Suicide, Atheist

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Fear

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

  Paul Simon

  Forgiveness, Heart, Envy

  Song: Wartime Prayers

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• This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
  And you'll be sorry that you messed with
  The U.S. of A.
  'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
  It's the American way.

  Toby Keith

  Dog, Sorry, Fighting

  "Song: 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue'". 2002.

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• Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

  Bruno Jasienski

  Betrayal, Fear, Ignorance

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• The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.

  Pete Wilson

  Land, People, Growth

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• Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Views, Christian Inspirational

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• War rages on the teeming earth;
  The hot and sanguinary fight
  Begins with each new creature's birth:
  A dreadful war where might is right;
  Where still the strongest slay and win,
  Where weakness is the only sin.

  Mathilde Blind

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Mathilde Blind (2012). “The Ascent of Man”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, War, Fire

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• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Fear, Humorous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.185, Harvard University Press

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• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

  Thomas Reed

  Fear, Humorous, Atheism

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