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• There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

  Cassandra Clare

  Character, Disease, Sides

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• I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

  Rick Yancey

  Native American, Thinking, Silence

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.36, Penguin

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• A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature

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• When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

  John Howard Griffin

  Justice, People, Minorities

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• I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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• Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

  Jonathan Raban

  Children, College, Years

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• A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doctors, Anxiety

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.89, BookBaby

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• ...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

  Paul Simon

  Beauty, Art, Communication

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• My wife and I thought we were in love, but it turned out to be benign

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Wife, My Wife

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• Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Christian, Years, Humanity

  James Lovelock (2007). “The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Equality, Race

  Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires.

  Edward Said

  Order, Tyrants, Democracy

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.21, Vintage

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• Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, including those of one's own in relation to those of the other.

  Qiu Miaojin

  Beautiful, Mean, Love Is

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• No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

  Shannon Hale

  Heart, Tears, Vines

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• Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

  Ken Baumann

  Art, Practice, Horizon

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• There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

  Richard Gere

  Lying, Reason, Compassionate

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed. I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there

  David Levinthal

  Reality, Ideas, Personality

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• Unused creativity is not benign.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2013

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• You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

  Ben Kingsley

  Other Cultures, Play, Landscape

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

  Scott Adams

  Life Is, This Life, Delusion

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• How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Blessing, Night

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• I must admit that many humans have a strong need to perceive life as in some sense benign and potentially happy. It is also evident that this need cannot be met if we do not experience a salvific change in consciousness, which allows us to perceive a greater, happier reality beyond the world of matter and sense.

  Stephan A. Hoeller

  Strong, Reality, Matter

  "The Rebirth of Gnosticism: An Interview with Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller". New Dawn Magazine, No.143 (Mar-Apr 2014), beforeitsnews.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.

  Russell Crowe

  Children, Men, Judging

  "American Gangster, The Russell Crowe Interview: On Jail, Justice And Jive Talk To Babes On The Weight Of A Man". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. October 29, 2007.

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• The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Cute, Interesting, Nasty

  Source: collider.com

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