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• By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

  Bill Bright

  Jesus, America, Hands

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Block, Struggle, Heart

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• The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Boys, Men, Three

  "Redefining fatherhood: What it means to 'be a man' today" by Joy Jernigan, www.today.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Deployment, Weapons, Nuclear

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Creative, Captains

  Jules Verne (2013). “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  America, People, Easy

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• To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Eye, Responsibility, Discipline

  "The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth".

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• The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Growing, Today

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• When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!

  A. R. Bernard

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2014

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• One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Mistake, Ironic

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• And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Numbers, Goal

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.291, Hachette UK

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• I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

  George Best

  Sometimes, Born, Streaks

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• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Government, Enemy, Shrinking

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• Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.

  Kim Jong-un

  Nuclear, Bombs, Want

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• There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Evil, Growth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Life, Beautiful, Dark

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Community, Sap, Ease

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• The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Foundation, Politics, Moral

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• You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?

  John Powell

  Beautiful, Attitude, Heart

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• For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Hard Work, Self, Skills

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• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Military, Flying, Historical

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• When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

  Dalai Lama

  Independence, Emotion, Assets

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• Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Saint, Human Nature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Looks, May, Appearance

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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