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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Author:
Xun Zi
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Author:
Xun Zi
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The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
Author:
Gilbert White
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Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.
Author:
Byron White
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.
Author:
Jerry Weller
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.
Author:
John Walters
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We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
Author:
Sol Wachtler
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Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
Author:
Sarah Vowell
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Author:
Voltaire
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Author:
Mark Twain
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
Author:
Sophocles
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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.
Author:
Socrates
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I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.
Author:
Susan Smith
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Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.
Author:
Richard Shelby
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
Author:
Lee Scott
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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
Author:
Nathan Rothschild
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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.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.
Author:
Dave Reichert
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A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
Author:
Jef Raskin
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Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
Author:
Frederick Pollock
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Author:
Plato
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Author:
Plato
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.
Author:
Robert Patterson
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Author:
George Orwell
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God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it were twice as strong or twice that, it could not be strong enough to defeat us. We are confident that no one can harm us if God is with us.
Author:
Mohammed Omar
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Author:
Ted Olson
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Author:
Barack Obama
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Author:
Florence Nightingale
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Author:
Florence Nightingale
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Author:
Bob Ney
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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
Author:
John Muir
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Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
Author:
Kevin Mitnick
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They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
Author:
Andrea Mitchell
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
Author:
John Mill
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
Author:
Barbara Mikulski
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Author:
Michelangelo
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
Author:
David McCullough
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Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
Author:
John McCarthy
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The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
Author:
Andrew McCarthy
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It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
Author:
Dave Matthews
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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Author:
Jose Marti
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The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.
Author:
Nong Manh
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
Author:
Bjorn Lomborg
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.
Author:
Lawrence Lessig
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If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
Author:
Joshua Lederberg
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Where is the harm in the wireless industry?
Author:
Steve Largent
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If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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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.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
Author:
Stanley Kubrick
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Author:
Joseph Krutch
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The unspoken word never does harm.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Author:
Grenville Kleiser
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I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.
Author:
William Kidd
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
Author:
John Keynes
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
Author:
Paul Kagame
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There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
Author:
Donald Justice
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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.
Author:
John Jones
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This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.
Author:
Diana Jones
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Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
Author:
Bobby Jindal
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Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.
Author:
William Jenkins
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I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Author:
Michael Jackson
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Author:
Washington Irving
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I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
Author:
William Hunt
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Author:
Hippocrates
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Author:
Hippocrates
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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.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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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.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.
Author:
Judd Gregg
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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.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Author:
Graham Greene
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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.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
Author:
Jim Gerlach
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That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Author:
Henry George
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Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
Author:
Elton Gallegly
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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.
Author:
Milton Friedman
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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.
Author:
Milton Friedman
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Author:
Milton Friedman
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I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
Author:
Tommy Franks
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
Author:
Hans Frank
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The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.
Author:
William Floyd
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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.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Author:
Epicurus
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The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.
Author:
Eliot Engel
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Author:
Daniel Ellsberg
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A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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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.
Author:
T. Eliot
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I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
Author:
Paul Ehrlich
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Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
Author:
Gregg Easterbrook
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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.
Author:
Julia Dreyfus
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
Author:
Mary Douglas
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Author:
Mary Douglas
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Author:
Mary Douglas
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The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Author:
Norm Dicks
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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
Author:
James Dickey
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While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
Author:
Dorothy Denning
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Author:
Barbara Deming
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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.
Author:
Mark Dayton
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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.
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.
Author:
Tom Daschle
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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.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.
Author:
Peter Cushing
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The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
Author:
Adrian Cronauer
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No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
Author:
Mandell Creighton
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As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
Author:
Ezra Cornell
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Author:
Charles Colton
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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
Author:
William Clifford
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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.
Author:
William Clifford
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The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
Author:
William Clifford
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Author:
Camille Claudel
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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Author:
John Chrysostom
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I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
Author:
Margaret Cho
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Author:
Jackie Chan
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Author:
Albert Camus
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.
Author:
James Cameron
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The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.
Author:
Stephen Cambone
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The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.
Author:
Ken Calvert
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
Author:
Laura Bush
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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.
Author:
William Buckley, Jr.
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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.
Author:
Jeff Buckley
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The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
Author:
Corrine Brown
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America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.
Author:
Christopher Bond
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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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.
Author:
Jane Austen
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Author:
Francis Assisi
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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.
Author:
Julian Assange
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I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
Author:
Tom Allen
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Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
Author:
Richard Allen
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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Author:
Aeschylus
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Author:
Aeschylus
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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
Author:
Will Adams
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Author:
Henry Adams
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Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
Author:
Jack Abramoff
