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• one ingredient of revenge is always pride.

  Eleanor Dark

  Pride, Ingredients

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• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Book, Cities, Perspective

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• Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

  Ajahn Brahm

  Karma

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• We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

  Heinz Guderian

  Country, Military, Reality

  "Images of Kursk : History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943". Book by Nikolas Cornish, p. 6, 2002.

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• All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

  Tony Scott

  Two, Hours

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• I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Expression, Hatred

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• One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Hurt, Writing, Illumination

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• Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, People, Done

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.99, Open Road Media

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• Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dollars, Dimes, Campaigns

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.245, Pan Macmillan

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• The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

  Albert Camus

  Best Revenge

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• God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

  Sophocles

  Men, Return, Injury

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.157, University of Chicago Press

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Men

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Sensual, Criticism

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.149, Macmillan

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• A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Mary Baker Eddy (1990). “Ciencia y salud: con clave de las escrituras”, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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• I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.

  James Cromwell

  Nerd, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2012.

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• Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

  John Ford

  Blow, Delay, Vengeance

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• The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.

  Jennifer James

  Good Life, Crazy, Successful

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, People, Able

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

  Maximilien Robespierre

  People, Demand, Vengeance

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• France does not practice revenge.

  Francois Fillon

  Practice, Doe, France

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• There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.

  Johnny Galecki

  Sight, Air, Years

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• Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

  Michel Gondry

  Wall, Mean, Frustration

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

  Robert Palmer

  Sweet, Men, Deceit

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• A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

  Rodney Crowell

  Love You, Fists, Faces

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• A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

  Henry Rollins

  Gun, Hands, Target

  Song: Civilized

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