"Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl."
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"The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi."
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"Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it."
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"the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't."
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"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."
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"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."
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"I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues."
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"Shouting has never made me understand anything."
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"Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?"
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"There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing."
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"The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all."
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"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."
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"Woman reduces us all to the common denominator."
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"What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment."
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"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."
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"Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke."
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"Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'"
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"With malice towards none; with charity for all."
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"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."
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"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."
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