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• Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one's system for at least three days in order to perform a 'cleanse.'

  Sloane Crosley

  Order, Vegetables, Three

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• Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Needs, Brilliant, Underestimate

  Theodore Dreiser, Roark Mulligan (2010). “The Financier: The Critical Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press

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• Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

  Fred Durst

  Sound, Phrases, Machines

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• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Love, Hate, Generosity

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• Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

  George Eliot

  Sometimes, Nonsense, Quarrels

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.203

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• When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Anger, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

  Paul Engle

  Grief, Delight, Pages

  Paul Engle (1965). “A Woman Unashamed: And Other Poems”, New York, Random House

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• Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sacred, Profit, Possession

  Desiderius Erasmus, Margaret Mann Phillips (1967). “Erasmus on His Times: A Shortened Version of the 'Adages' of Erasmus”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Love, Voice, Long

  "Leslie Fiedler Dies at 85; Provocative Literary Critic" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2003.

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• Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

  Anatole France

  Love, Fear, Religion

  "The Garden of Epicurus". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Fear, Law, Support

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• Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Dream, Revenge

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.

  Shakti Gawain

  Long, People, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.177, Mango Media Inc.

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• The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

  Al Gore

  Groups, Shrinking, Global Warming

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview With Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fear, Atheism, Ass

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• But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

  Frank Herbert

  Anger, Men, Self

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Truth, Tyrants

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• Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Holiday, Years

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Courage, Veterans Day, Fear

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• I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Sight, Ideas, Magic

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• Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Eye, Gun

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• As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Doors, Heaven

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• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Giving, Religion

  "Island". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1962.

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• A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  Washington Irving

  Birthday, Anger, Age

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon "Rip Van Winkle" (1819 - 1820)

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