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" I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. "

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" When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. "

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" You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. "

" Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack. "

" It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. "

" Christmas makes everything twice as sad. "

" If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. "

" Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.' "

" If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. "

" Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. "

" Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. "

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

" Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. "

" A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous. "

" The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. "

" I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes. "

" We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. "

" I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. "

" Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else. "

" The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. "

" I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love. "

" For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. "

" A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. "

" Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?' "

" Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows. "

" Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' "

Douglas Coupland

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" Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. "

" The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge. "

" As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. "

" People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty. "

" I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way. "