“ Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensable to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent. ”
- Jeanne Moreau- Copy
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“ In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase with the warning 'do not eat this bookcase — it can be harmful to your health'. ”
- Bjorn Bayley- Copy
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“ The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. ”
- Baruch Benedict de Spinoza- Copy
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“ Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. ”
- Agnes de Mille- Copy
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“ Faith is courage; it is creative, while despair is always destructive. ”
- David S. Muzzey- Copy
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“ Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
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“ It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it. ”
- Sean O’Casey- Copy
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“ Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
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“ The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle. ”
- Dorothy Thompson- Copy
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“ Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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“ Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government… ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived. ”
- Luc De Clapiers- Copy
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“ There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. ”
- Mary Bateson- Copy
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“ I think moderation is the key. In small amounts, it has not proved to be harmful. One or two cups a day doesn't seem to cause problems for most people. ”
- Jennifer James- Copy
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“ Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. - James Anthony Froude. ”
- James Anthony Froude- Copy
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“ There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. ”
- Douglas William Jerrold- Copy
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