“(imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!”
"Role Model" (Track 9).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)
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Speaking to police officers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgjNPiq9Cw at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island (28 July 2017)
2010s, 2017, July
“Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone’ll throw you a shovel.” – Chloe Traeger”
Variant: Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
Source: Head Over Heels
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
Source: The Definitive Book of Body Language
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 2, pp. 13–14
Source: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Context: I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strongperson is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of [[love].
