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• If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

  John Doerr

  Business, Climate, Economy

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• Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

  A. S. Byatt

  Action, Avert

  A S Byatt (2009). “The Children's Book”, p.192, Random House

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• Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hands, Essentials, Aristocracy

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.30

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• Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fighting, Men, Hair

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

  Susan Rice

  Nuclear, Stolen, Planets

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• By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Government, People, Defense

  Ezra Taft Benson (1986). “The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner”, Shadow Mountain

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• Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Special

  "Next@CNN" with Heidi Collins, edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2003.

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• Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Littles, Remember

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.228

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• This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

  Atul Gawande

  Reality, Care, Heal

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right”, p.28, Macmillan

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• I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

  Oleg Cassini

  Sports, Play, People

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• Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Hurt, War

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• It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.

  Michael Crawford

  Reality, Criticism, Littles

  "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Michael Crawford Talks THE WIZARD OF OZ, PHANTOM, Future Concerts & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Addiction, Drug

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• One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.

  Thomas Sowell

  Play, People, Months

  "Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.

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• People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hurt, Children, People

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• None can cure their harms by wailing them.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Wailing, Cures

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.131

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• Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

  Louise Slaughter

  Home, Tragedy, Way

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• What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Cities, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

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• Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

  Gail Carriger

  Irreparable Harm, Causes, Irreparable

  Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

  Will Durant

  Wall, Democracies Have, Government

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Errors, Deeds

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Missing, Vices

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.581

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• Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Cheerful, Poor

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2121, Delphi Classics

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• You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.

  William Shawcross

  Talking, Two, Justice

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• Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Moving, Community, Inspire

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