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  We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Society, Politics

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• For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

  Paula Cole

  Pain, Humble, Compassion

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• Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

  C. Wright Mills

  Understanding, Society, Individual

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

  Hannah More

  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Hatred

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspiration, Sadness, Confusion

  Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.

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• When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Men, Later In Life

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• When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Writing, Compliment

  "Alanis Morissette: 'I still have PTSD from the Jagged Little Pill era. It was a profound violation'" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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• I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

  Mike Myers

  Thinking, People, Misunderstood

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  Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

  Willie Nelson

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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• You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Sunset, Discipline, Teammate

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• What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Strong, Children

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• I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Bitterness, Bitter

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• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  America, People, Fixing

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• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Growing Up, Fire, Class

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• My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Passion, Acting, Energy

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• I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

  Gary Oldman

  Jobs, Father, Loss

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• I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Energy, Negative

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• Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

  George Orwell

  Practice, Society, Demand

  "The Art of Donald McGill". Critical essay by George Orwell, 1941.

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• It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

  Colin Powell

  Wall, Political, Needs

  "Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Are ‘As American As Apple Pie’". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

  Francis Quarles

  Power, Long, Abuse

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• I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

  Boyd Rice

  Thinking, Rights, People

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• Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Hatred, Together

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• Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

  Kevin Rudd

  Years, Hatred, Buckets

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Religion, Savages

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.67, Routledge

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• President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Frustration, Offering

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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