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  • Clarendon Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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  • David O. Mckay Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
    David O. Mckay
    American religious leader and educator (1951 - 1970)
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  • Barry Eisler Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Seneca Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Seneca Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • John Philip Sousa Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Nathanael Emmons Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Ayn Rand Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
    The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • James Baldwin Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • John McGahern Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Carl E. Olson Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
    Carl E. Olson
    American author
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  • Carol Loomis Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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