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• Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

  Meir Kahane

  Love, Peace, Hate

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• I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Believe, Issues, People

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• To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

  Steig Larsson

  Exacting Revenge, Duty, Absolutes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

  Dave Matthews

  Motivational, Oil, Als

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• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  Radha Mitchell

  Christian, Nice, Mean

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• The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

  Colin Mochrie

  People, Said, Thirst

  "10 Questions: Colin Mochrie". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 9, 2003.

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• It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Pay, Impossible

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• Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Lust, Wipe

  "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

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• Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Offence, Angry

  "Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity" by Daniel Kalder, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Water, Resources

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. 10 November, 2011.

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• I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hatred, Want, Scared

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

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• It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Thinking, Devil

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

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• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Mean, Sensual

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• 'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

  Rob Sheffield

  Style, Dallas, Dynasty

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• Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Women, Memorable

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• Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Interesting, Redemption, Action

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• Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

  Cat Stevens

  Land, Community, Everyday

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

  Desmond Tutu

  Military, Men, Talking

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• It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Hate, Mean

  "Carrie Underwood's June 2012 Cover Shoot Gallery", www.glamour.com. June 2012.

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• Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mean, Guy, Persons

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  You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

  Cheating, Law, Anarchy

  Cornelius Vanderbilt (1956). “Queen of the Golden Age: the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt”

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• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  Eddie Vedder

  Inspirational, Life, Pearl Jam

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from May 17, 2014

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• Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

  William Wycherley

  Jealous, Sleep, Eye

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Order, Games, Ifs

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