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• What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

  R. D. Laing

  Depression, Denial, Normal

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• The paper standard is self-destructive.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Self, Gold, Paper

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• As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Fire, Self

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• I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

  Davey Havok

  Believe, Self, Drug Use

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• Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

  Jena Malone

  Powerful, Belief

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• Scientology is destructive and a rip-off.

  Jason Beghe

  Rip, Scientology

  "Television Star Exits Scientology" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. April 17, 2008.

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• I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

  Whitney Houston

  Mistake, Self, Want

  "Transcript of 'Crack is whack' Interview". Interview with Diane Sawyer, genius.com.

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• I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

  David Walliams

  Dark, Thinking, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

  Morris Chestnut

  Successful, Reality, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Bed, Reason, No Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

  Nat Hentoff

  Thinking, President, Dangerous

  "Nat Hentoff: Obama Dangerous, Destructive". Interview with John W. Whitehead, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

  Alex Linder

  Stupid, Moving, Violent

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• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  Michael Robotham

  Loneliness, Love You, Loss

  "Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loughlin)". Book by Michael Robotham, 2010.

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• The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.

  Wess Stafford

  Running, Children, Sacrifice

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.2, WaterBrook

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• Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way, tell the people in your life what you need. Don't expect people to read your mind. It only leads to disappointment and frustration. Empower them to empower you!

  Jillian Michaels

  Disappointment, Frustration, People

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 29, 2011

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• We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

  Wendell Berry

  Stupid, Periods, Species

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.61, Counterpoint Press

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• The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

  George W. Bush

  America, World, Weapons

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Future, Party

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• Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

  Emmet Fox

  Fear, Creativity, Love Is

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• Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Eugenics, Giving

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.372, Inkling Books

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• I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

  Amy Winehouse

  Writing, Past, Self

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• The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.

  Jules Henry

  Education, Children, Fall

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• We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

  Chaim Weizmann

  World, Helping, You Like It

  Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

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• In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Writing, Self, Important

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• Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

  Martin Seligman

  Skills, Optimism, Deals

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.39, Vintage

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