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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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"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,Knew you not Pompey?"
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"Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium."
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"Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
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"So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone."
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"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water."
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"Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind."
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"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let us stop it by being kind and forgiving like water."
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"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."
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"Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it."
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"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life."
Anger
"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 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
"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
"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
Power
"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
Baseball
"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
Help
"Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation."
Baseball
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