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• The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Ties, Long

  "Why Charging People With Homicide For Overdose Deaths Is Revenge And Not Justice" by Brooke M. Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2017.

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• Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Winning, People, Enemy

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• Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Self, Destruction, Found

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• For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.

  Mark Lawrence

  Children, Lying, Healing

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.21, Penguin

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• For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.

  Xavier Forneret

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

  David Prowse

  Thinking, Sith, Excellent

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• Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mind, Criticism, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.22, MIT Press

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• Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position.

  Mao Zedong

  Running, Dog, Peace

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.69, China Books

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• If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Life, Two, Firsts

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• He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

  Angela Carter

  Thinking, Language, Projects

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

  David Lehman

  Obscurity, Way, Faces

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

  Alexander the Great

  Teeth, Cobras, May

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• All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

  Robert Greene

  Crush, Fire, Leader

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• It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Growing Up, Fear

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1598, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.

  Sam the Sham

  Names, Telephones, Today

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• I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.

  Cat Stevens

  Running, Gun, People

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• Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

  Marilyn Manson

  Letting Go, Retribution

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• My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Mean, Men

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• My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

  Tupac Shakur

  Block, Half, Retribution

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• My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

  Snoop Dogg

  Domes, Retribution, Fingers

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• No more Mr. Nice Guy.

  Alice Cooper

  Nice, Guy, Retribution

  Song: It's The Little Things, Album: Brutal Planet, 2000

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• No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

  Leonard Cohen

  Penance, Why Not, Twisted

  Song: Humbled In Love, Album: Recent Songs, 1979

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• One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

  Garth Brooks

  Rivers, Bridges, One Day

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• One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.

  Lesley Gore

  Party, Kissing, Night

  Song: Judy's Turn to Cry

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• Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Cat, Cold, Retribution

  Song: Dangerous Mc's, Album: Born Again, 1999

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