anger

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

- Richter, Jean Paul

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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

- Real Live Preacher

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

- Akhenaton

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace

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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home.

- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black manÆs struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. ôIÆve had enough of someone elseÆs propaganda,ö I had written to these friends. ôI am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such IÆm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.ö The American white manÆs press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldnÆt deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black manÆs problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasnÆt demonstrating non-violence.

- malcolm X

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

- Thurber, James

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

- Taylor, Jeremy

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

- Brookner, Anita

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INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Brewbold, "there is but one way to do nothing and diverse ways to do something, whereof, to a surety, only one is the right way, it followeth that he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards" -- a most clear and satisfactory exposition on the matter. "Your prompt decision to attack," said General Grant on a certain occasion to General Gordon Granger, "was admirable; you had but five minutes to make up your mind in." "Yes, sir," answered the victorious subordinate, "it is a great thing to know exactly what to do in an emergency. When in doubt whether to attack or retreat I never hesitate a moment -- I toss up a copper." "Do you mean to say that's what you did this time?" "Yes, General; but for Heaven's sake don't reprimand me: I disobeyed the coin."

- Ambrose Bierce

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

- Epictetus

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A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.

- Kennedy, John F.

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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

- Thomas H. Huxley

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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

- Byron, Lord

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

- Gaulle, Charles De

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

- Seneca

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A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

- John le Carre

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An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger. Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

- Baldwin, James

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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

- Mamet, David