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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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• People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Fear, Believe, Responsibility

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

  Theodor Adorno

  Talent

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.109, Verso

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• Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

  Steve Almond

  Grief, Form, Cloaks

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books

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• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.

  Steve Almond

  Powerful, Political, Lazy

  "The Joke’s on You" by Steve Almond, The Baffler, No. 20, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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• The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

  Louis Dudek

  Art, Class, Definitions

  Louis Dudek (1991). “Small perfect things”, Dc Books

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• In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

  Rumi

  Fire, Goal, Veils

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• People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

  Idries Shah

  Running, Fashion, Men

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.15, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

  David Leavitt

  Passion, Writing, Tired

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• Well, I've thought about donating, but they get so many damn donations already. I read about one foundation that raised over 100 million dollars. Well where the hell did that go? For all I know every starving child has a 2 story house by now. Or maybe they're all raging alcoholics, like homeless people. Homeless people who are more effective when it comes to raising money. Who wants to support alcoholic children? Not me.

  Zach Braff

  Children, People, House

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• And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Father, Heart, Names

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to be angry about in the world--people wielding political or religious authority who have been blinded by money, for example! That is the kind of evil young people should direct their rage at. Be angry about that, and you'll never lose your temper about trifling matters.

  Josei Toda

  Religious, People, Evil

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• My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it

  Zhu Rongji

  Leader, Criticism, Want

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