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• Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

  Bill Vaughan

  Taken, People, Sorcery

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• Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

  George Herbert

  Pardon, Slander

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

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• Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

  Lucy Freeman

  Suicide, Hurt, Risk

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• If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

  Henry Spencer

  Lying, Programming, Software Engineering

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• Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!

  Christa B. Allen

  Princess, Play, Training

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

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• And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, "A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse." I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Heart

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, War, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.19

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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ambition, Men, Safety

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine gave them security, wealth, honours, and revenge; and the support of the orthodox faith was considered as the most sacred and important duty of the civil magistrate. The edict of Milan, the great charter of toleration, had confirmed to each individual of the Roman world the privilege of choosing and professing his own religion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Grateful, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (2013). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Years, Cities

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.338, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ordinary, World, Madness

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• I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Mother, Father, Yankees

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• The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Black, Panthers

  "A Closer Look at the New Black Panther Party". 6abc.com. November 09, 2010.

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• [O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

  John Berger

  Art, Past, Judging

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage

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• Everything evil is revenge.

  Otto Weininger

  Evil

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• If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Hate, Betray

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• How sweet to die after one's enemies.

  Pierre Corneille

  Death, Sweet, Hatred

  Pierre Corneille (2015). “Chief Plays of Corneille”, p.320, Princeton University Press

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• It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

  Pierre Corneille

  Blood, Outrage, Dies

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• It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Hate, Bitterness

  Zig Ziglar (1998). “Breaking Through to the Next Level”

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• What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hate, Heart, Men

  "Nelson Mandela's death sparks global response". www.cnn.com. December 6, 2013.

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  Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Intelligent, People

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• There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dust, Oblivion, Nothingness

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• Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Needs, Done

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• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cities, People, Arrogance

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• Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

  Mason Cooley

  Sweet, Revenge Is Sweet

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