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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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"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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"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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"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."
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"Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go."
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"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."
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"Kasta looked from one of them to the other, the two of them shaking hands, understanding each other's concern. She didn't see where Giddon came off feeling insulted. She didn't see how Giddon had any place in it at all. Who were they, to take her fight away from her and turn it into some sort of understanding between themselves? She would knock his nose from his face. She would thump them both, and she would apologise to neither."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence."
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"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
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"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
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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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