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• We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

  Liam Neeson

  Country, Moving, Differences

  "Liam Neeson Seeks Revenge in Seraphim Falls!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. January 26, 2007.

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• Revenge produces nothing in the end. Even if you hate someone enough to kill them, you won't be saved from it. Always face forward. Walk down the path that has light.

  Mikage

  Hate, Light, Path

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• Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
  And silent, settles into full revenge.

  John Tillotson

  Anger, Storm, Silent

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• History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

  William Allingham

  Hatred, Selfishness, Heroism

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• It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, War, Ghetto

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• The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  Morris Sullivan

  Independent, Thinking, Decision

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• He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

  Aesop

  Hurt, Plot

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Book, Cities, Perspective

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• Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

  Ajahn Brahm

  Karma

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• Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

  Joseph Stanislaw

  Scar, Heal, Grows

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• Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 124.

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• I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

  James Brown

  Crazy, Karate, Retribution

  James Brown (2013). “James Brown - The Ultimate Collection (Songbook)”, p.123, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

  Sting

  Stars, Violence, Forget

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• There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow.

  Hugh Allen

  Wisdom, Fighting, Blow

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• I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

  Eric Davis

  Play, Momentum, Bigs

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• There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humble, Doubt, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opportunity, Enmity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1715). “M. Tully Cicero's five books of Tusculan disputations, done into Engl. by a gentleman of Christ Church college, Oxford”, p.152

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• When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

  Rob Bell

  Insulting, Want, Instinct

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• Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

  Akhenaton

  Pain, Men, Purpose

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• I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.

  Mike Carey

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Thinking, Fans

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Dirt, Eating, Empty

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.60, BookBaby

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• A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

  Rodney Crowell

  Love You, Fists, Faces

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• You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.

  George W. Bush

  America, Mind, Negative

  "Bush, in his own words". www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Joining, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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