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Bill

In the future, it might help if you located the source of your rage before you unleashed it on the world.

— NewsRadio  ·  1995

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Bill asks for the cause of anger to be identified before its effects are directed outward. The advice distinguishes understanding a feeling from acting on it. Its emphasis is on the order of those steps, without specifying what produced the rage or who has been affected.

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