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" Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility. "

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" Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. "

Edgar Rice Burroughs

" In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. "

" I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened. "

" In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America. "

" Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry. "

Theodore Isaac Rubin

" I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people. "

" When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him. "

" September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger. "

" Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain. "

" I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. "

" Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger? "

" When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy. "

" Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. "

" The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth. "

" When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from. "

" I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. "

" My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was. "

" I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane. "

" There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. "

" We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. "

Pramila Jayapal

" Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. "

Charles Simmons

" I literally used to stare at my face in the mirror with hate and anger. I'd focus on those gigantic zits and just wail about what a monster I was, how I would never have a career because of my gross skin. I couldn't pass a mirror with out thinking about how hideous my skin was and how I wished I was someone else, someone with perfect skin. "

Stephanie Beatriz

" Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. "

" Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified. "

" I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. "

" When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothers get the feeling that talking to their daughters can be like walking on eggshells: they have to watch every word. "

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" If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. "