Harm Quotes - Page 31

• A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Maintenance, Machines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Economy, Volatility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Talking, Trying, Heard

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• You must not fight. Do no harm to anyone. Do right always.

  Wovoka

  Fighting

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• Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thrones, Littles, Moral

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• Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Charm, Provoking

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 1, l. 16

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• We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Knows, Powerless

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• If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Peace, Garden, Turkeys

  "Report: Turkey Considering Invasion of Syria to Establish Buffer Zone". www.haaretz.com. June 29, 2015.

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• Shadows cannot harm the almighty!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shadow, Almighty

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• For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.

  Hernando Cortes

  Past, Long, Victory

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• The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Evil, Use, May

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• Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Long, Tradition

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• I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Done, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

  Max Frisch

  Hate, People, Hatred

  "Sketchbook 1966-1977". Book by Max Frisch, 1977.

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• We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Way, Satan

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• He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

  Solomon

  Wise, Suffering, Fool

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• Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Mad, Wicked, Church

  "Unreasonable behaviour" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• [I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm's way. It's lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet.

  Katherine Dunn

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Reading

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• It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Doe, Done, Acknowledge

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Respect, Impact, People

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• Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Real, Discovery, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.162, My Ebook Publishing House

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• I don't believe less in American government because of a bad politician. I don't believe less in the Catholic Church because of a criminal priest but I wish we were doing more - and had done more in the past especially - to do something about these things. It doesn't harm my faith but it gets me just mad that these things have existed.

  Lino Rulli

  Believe, Past, Government

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Common, Badness, Injured

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.59, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Thinking, Neighbor

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• Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Talking, Cracks

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.111, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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