"Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately."

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Source : "The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry". Book by Matthew Henry and Philip Henry, p. 134, 1830.

Edward Everett Hale

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“A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.”
“Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.”
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.”
“It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heartâ€™s choice.”
“Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.”
“When one begins to reflect on philosophyâ€”then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating ideaâ€”which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophyâ€”to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberationâ€”the thrust toward ourselves.”
“I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.”
“Sarah Brown is a sweetie to work with. She's a good actress. She's gutsy and she comes in and she knows her lines. She's just terrific. Sometimes I forget how young she is, because she truly walked right in and took the territory and was able to hold her own with people who've been here for so many years. To be able to pull that off [for someone who had never been on a show], I really give the woman a lot of credit. She's done great.”

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