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• Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Creativity, Goodness, Humans

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

  Stephen King

  Heart, Mind, Hurtful

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

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• I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

  Mark Gatiss

  Heart, Thinking, Simple

  "Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

  Steig Larsson

  Punishment, Feelings, Firsts

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• It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Responsibility, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

  Brené Brown

  Painful Feelings, Self, Perfect

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.111, Penguin

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• Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

  Brené Brown

  Self, Perfect, Goal

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

  Michael Crichton

  Creative, Confusing, Trouble

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.194, Vintage

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• Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Wall, Cheerful, Pierce

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

  Simon Pegg

  Princess, Odds, Creative

  Simon Pegg (2010). “Nerd Do Well”, p.153, Random House

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• The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

  Andrew Weil

  Ideas, Modern, Should

  "Spontaneous Happiness". Book by Andrew Weil, www.npr.org. 2011.

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• When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Depression, Believe, Mean

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

  Rachel Vincent

  Self, Addiction, Kind

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Stray”, p.305, MIRA

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• I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

  Wess Stafford

  Country, Lonely, Children

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.55, WaterBrook

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• The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

  Albert Camus

  Hero, Suffering, Exaltation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.49, Vintage

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• The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

  Steve Jobs

  Axes, Today, Conservative

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• Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

  Pauline Kael

  Artist, Vulgarity Is, Snobbery

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

  Jane Jacobs

  Disappointment, Cities, Causes

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.7, Vintage

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• De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

  Saul Bellow

  Underestimate, Democratic, Impulse

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

  John Cage

  Curiosity, Judgment, Awareness

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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  Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, People, Ends

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

  George Davis Herron

  Government, Greed, Possession

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• Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Attitude, Passion

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• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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• I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Global Warming, Carbon, Policy

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