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• No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

  David McCullough

  History, Done, Want

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.1767, Simon and Schuster

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• Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

  Mark Dayton

  Children, Pregnancy, Mercury

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• It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Flames, Justice

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• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, House

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Envy, Hatred

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Cutting, Water, Sun

  "Julia Louis-Dreyfus and husband Brad Hall discuss their eco-friendly hideaway". Interview with Amanda Little, grist.org. August 1, 2003.

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• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

  Hans Frank

  War, Umpires, Justice

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• No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Doe, He Man

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• I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

  John Paul Jones

  Life, Fear, Military

  Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

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• The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hate, War

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Salt, Thee

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• The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Animal, Personality

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could Do Without" (1949)

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• That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Political, Unjust

  Henry George (1973). “The Land Question: What it Involves, and how Alone it Can be Settled”, New York : AMS Press

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• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  Larry Flynt

  Ideas, People, Religion

  "Larry Flynt: What I've Learned" by john H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

  Mandell Creighton

  People, Doing Good, Altruism

  In Louise Creighton Life (1904) vol. 2, p. 503

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• I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

  Socrates

  People, Wish, Might

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• No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Spirit, Dumbness

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.138, Verso

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• The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Organization, Greed

  Milton Friedman (1968). “Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Wish, Demise

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.248, University of Chicago Press

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• You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Men, Numbers

  Letter to Louise Colet, 14 June 1853

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• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Literature, World

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, People, Ends

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage

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• On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Average, World, Global Warming

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

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