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• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Justice, Police Officer

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

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• Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Consciousness, Habit, Individual

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• The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Avenging, Injured

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33

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• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  Uwe Boll

  Stories, Alive, Execution

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• Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blood, Fever, Disease

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Forgiveness, Hurt, People

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• Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Regret, Pain, Memories

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.232

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• Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

  Julia Child

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

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• Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

  Martha Stewart

  Middle, Middle Aged

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Grace, Savages

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• Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Anger, Concealed, Exacting Revenge

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• I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Son, Want

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• We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  Marianne Williamson

  Compassion, Mind, Enemy

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• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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• What goes around, comes around.

  Willie Nelson

  Karma, Respect, Swimming

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.33, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law Courts, Justice, Ears

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936

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• Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Patriotism, World

  'The Liberator' 15 December 1837 Prospectus

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• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Eye, Jesus Christ

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

  Jo Nesbo

  Christian, Demand, Ethics

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• Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.

  Ed Sheeran

  Inspiring, Hard Work, High School Graduation

  Twitter post from Jun 20, 2012

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• There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Past, Needs

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• The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Successful, Desire, Definitions

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.93, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Of course they remember. But it's not gonna be about revenge; it's gonna be about the Big Ten championship.

  Shannon Brown

  Remember, Championship, Bigs

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• Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.

  Tuvia Bielski

  Death, Freedom, Animal

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• You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  Eddie Vedder

  Sacrifice, Trying, Doe

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

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