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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

— Robert South

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

— George Savile

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

— Sean Penn

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

— Harrison Ford

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

— Louis L'Amour

I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?'

— Adam Hamilton

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

— David Simon

Anger is a short madness.

— Horace

✗Opposing Perspectives

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

— Willard Gaylin

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

— Tim Gunn