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• I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark, or painful, or too embarrassing, or whatever. I feel like you might as well get it down for yourself. It can't do anything but help you get to where you want to be by recognizing the thoughts that you're having.

  Conor Oberst

  Dark, Want, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're making art, there's a lot of self-importance attached to that, but at the end of the day, you can always fall back on the fact that it's just a play. It's not like the Iraq War or something. We're not causing anybody any harm, other than a couple hours of a wasted evening.

  Glen Berger

  Art, Couple, War

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, White, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As editor of WikiLeaks, I am very proud of three things. Number one, we have never got it wrong in terms of what we say. A document is what it is. Number two, we have never revealed one of our sources ever. Number three, what are we proud of? We are proud that there is not a single instance of anyone coming into physical harm as a result of our publication.

  Julian Assange

  Editors, Two, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Creflo Dollar is compromising, confusing or outright contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Joel Osteen does exactly the same thing. Now, not necessarily the exact same doctrines, but he is compromising, confusing or contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Their view of faith is a force, words are the containers of the force, and through the force of faith, one can create his or her own reality. That's not biblical faith. That's a false faith, or faith that doesn't satisfy and ultimately will lead people into harm's way.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

  Tony Abbott

  Mean, Government, Waste

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

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• We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

  Julian Assange

  Organization, Rights, Effort

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

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• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

  Jane Austen

  Power, Done, Literature

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Long, Liberty, Doe

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

  Jeff Buckley

  Lying, Hair, Black

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• Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Bully, Needs, Mask

  "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Loss, Men, Done

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.

  Bill Cosby

  Mean, Gun

  "SIMMONS: Bill Cosby weighs in on Trayvon Martin case". Interview with Deborah Simmons -, www.washingtontimes.com. April 7, 2012.

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• False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Theory Of Evolution, Long

  Descent of Man Ch. 21, Appleton, New York (1871)

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• Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, People, Religion

  "Has the world changed?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2001.

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• The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

  Freeman Dyson

  Ideas, Important, World

  Salon Interview, September 29, 2007.

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• I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Humility, Practice

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Drug, Favors

  "‪If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?". Book by John Mitchinson, p. 87, 2009.

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• Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Would Be, Literature

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

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• To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Liberty, Shapes, Facts

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 33-34, 1978.

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• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love, Encouragement, Religious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

  "Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

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