„I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.“

— Mahatma Gandhi

Young India (15 September 1920), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 21 (electronic edition), p. 252.
1920s

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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869 - 1948

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„Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.“

— Napoleon Hill, book Think and Grow Rich

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„To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.“

— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

First attributed to Roosevelt on the internet in recent years, there is no evidence he ever said this, as noted in "Teddy Roosevelt on Conservatives vs. Liberals", by Dan Evon at snopes.com (3 June 2016) http://www.snopes.com/teddy-roosevelt-anger-a-liberal-quote and at Teddy Roosevelt once said, “To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.” (14 June 2016) https://www.truthorfiction.com/teddy-roosevelt-anger-conservative-lie-quote
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„Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.
But one can be converted into the other.“

— Spider Robinson, book Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Source: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977) "Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy"

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„Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.“

— Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet

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„The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.“

— El Lissitsky Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect 1890 - 1941

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„You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.“

— E.M. Forster, book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19
Context: It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

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„Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.“

— Audre Lorde writer and activist 1934 - 1992

"The Uses of Anger"
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„I understand the anger Americans feel today. In the past, our presidents have channeled that anger, and forged it into resolve, into endurance and high purpose, and into the will to defeat the enemies of freedom. Our anger was transformed into energy directed for good.“

— Mitt Romney American businessman and politician 1947

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„All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.“

— Harry Emerson Fosdick American pastor 1878 - 1969

“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in Christian Work #102 (10 June 1922), p. 716–722 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5070/
Context: Already all of us must have heard about the people who call themselves the Fundamentalists. Their apparent intention is to drive out of the evangelical churches men and women of liberal opinions. I speak of them the more freely because there are no two denominations more affected by them than the Baptist and the Presbyterian. We should not identify the Fundamentalists with the conservatives. All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

„As we can not give a general definition of energy, the principle of the conservation of energy signifies simply that there is something which remains constant.“

— Henri Poincaré, book The Value of Science

Comme nous ne pouvons pas donner de l'énergie une définition générale, le principe de la conservation de l'énergie signifie simplement qu'il y a quelque chose qui demeure constant.
Source: The Value of Science (1905), Ch. 10: Is Science artificial?

„Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
Of their bad influence, and their good receives.“

— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850

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— Charles Lyell British lawyer and geologist 1797 - 1875

Source: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Ch.20, p. 406
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„…He is driven by bitterness and anger. You can understand that.’
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— Rick Riordan, book The Blood of Olympus

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„It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.“

— E.M. Forster, book A Room with a View

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— Barry Lyga American writer 1971

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„The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.“

— Reginald Maudling British politician 1917 - 1979

The Times (26 April, 1976).

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— Toni Morrison American writer 1931 - 2019

Interview with Don Swaim (1987) http://wiredforbooks.org/tonimorrison/
Context: Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers — and I need clarity, in order to write — and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever. I can feel melancholy, and I can feel full of regret, but anger is something that is useful to the people who watch it... it's not useful to me.

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„The transmutation is occurring all around us — the transmutation which is primarily taking place in the consciousness of human beings, in the de–structuring of the human consciousness. The structured forms are burned. The substance composing those structured forms is transmuted into spirit — a quality of substance within the scope of this world of space and time which may then take form according to the design inherent in the irresistible force, spiritual form.“

— Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter Marquess of Exeter 1909 - 1988

On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 118
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