"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
-Edward Abbey
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"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.“
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
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"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."
-John Buchanan
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"Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else."
-Thylias Moss
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"As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex."
-Adam Sedgwick
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"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."
-Lord Halifax
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"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."
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"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well."
-Edmund S. Muskie
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