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"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."
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"Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice."
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"If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!"
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"But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself."
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"Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused."
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"The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes."
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
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"How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?"
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"Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger."
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"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
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"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."
Sports
"I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
Money
"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something."
Time
"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
Help
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it."
Money
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
Work
"I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act."
People
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