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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

~A. S. Byatt

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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

~Aaron Patzer

Topics: Anyway Car Damn Destructive Dress Drive Gives Guess How Impress Mentality Other People Rich Spend Successful Think Very Way Who You I Think

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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

~Adam Hamilton

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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

~Adrian Cronauer

Topics: About Constitution Destructive Dishonorable Law Law School Learned Nothing One Of The Things School Things Undesirable Wrong

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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

~Alain Badiou

Topics: Capitalism Contrary Destructive Good Humanity Liberal Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle

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I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Animosity Becoming Been Between Destructive Ever General Got Government More Never Out Really Seen Since Society Street Sure Suspect Type Wall Wall Street Where Which

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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

~Alan Watts

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

~Alan Watts

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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

~Albert Bandura

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

~Albert Einstein

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