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"Get mad, then get over it." -
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Colin Powell
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Top 5 quotes from Colin Powell
"When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own."
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
"Experts often possess more data than judgment."
"You don't know what you can get away with until you try."
Top 5 quotes from Anger
"I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it."
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get."
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