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• I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

  Frank Moore Colby

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• Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

  Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

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• Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

  Alfred A. Montapert

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• Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you’re feeling festive?

  Roseanne Barr

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• Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.

  Louis L'Amour

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• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

  Albert Einstein

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• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  George Eliot

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• Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

  James Fallows

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• A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

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• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

  Seneca the Younger

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• Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

  Confucius

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• Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

  M Kathleen Casey

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• If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

  Tenzin Gyatso

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• Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

  Thomas a Kempis

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• Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.

  Aristotle

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• What you need is sustained outrage…there’s far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

  Molly Ivins

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  Tags in Apathy, Authority

• Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.

  Epictetus

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• I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. [Character of Marmee in Little Women]

  Louisa May Alcott

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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

  Marcus Aurelius

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