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Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.


Joan Chittister

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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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PUBLILIUS SYRUS The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
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CARL WHITEHEAD But you know as well as I do that anger won’t solve anything.”

“I beg to differ,”...
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ROBIN HOBB The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
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BEDE JARRETT The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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JOAN LUNDEN I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He...
JOAN RIVERS Action is the antidote to despair.
JOAN BAEZ Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
JOAN JETT I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak...
JOAN JETT With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat...
JOAN RIVERS If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ...
JOAN RIVERS When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ...
JOAN KIRNER People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet....
JOAN BLADES Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us...
JOAN HALIFAX All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always l...
JOAN RIVERS I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
JOAN CRAWFORD Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".
JOAN MANLEY Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from...
JOAN LUNDEN