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"Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself."
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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
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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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"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
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"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
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"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."
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"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."
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"Hatred is inveterate anger."
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"Hatred is settled anger."
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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
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"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 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


"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports


"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life


"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
Baseball


"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
Time


"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
Baseball


"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 played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
Money


"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
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