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Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Because Chisel Considered Destructive Driving Landscape Lump Marble More Noble Old Over People See Taking Than Torn Trumpet Way

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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

~Cotton Mather

Topics: Chase Destructive Done Ignorance Out Shall Thee World Ah

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The manager sets a tone for that work group. The average-to-mediocre manager can set a very destructive tone, too.

~Curt Coffman

Topics: Destructive Group Manager Set Sets Tone Too Very Work

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I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

~Curt Schilling

Topics: Destructive Fails Guy Guys How Lose One Way Other Played Pulling Rope Seen Successful Teams Tell Them Way You

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Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.

~Cynthia Dill

Topics: Bad Believes Corporate Destructive Government Greed Ideology Institutions Places Public Valuable

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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

~Dan Brown

Topics: Could Creativity Destroy Destructive Hate Love More Planet Plenty Power Technologies Than Use

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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.

~Dana Perino

Topics: Am Been Civility Destructive Entity Far Harry Most Person Pretty Washington I Am

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The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

~Daniel Goleman

Topics: About Better Between Book Dalai Dalai Lama Destructive Dialogue Emotions Group Handle How Lama Our Overcome Scientists Them

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The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: American American Life Any Destructive Force Left Liberal Life Rigid

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Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

~Daniel Radcliffe

Topics: Being Carefully Destructive Fine Fine Line Good Line Self-Critical Somewhere Very Walk

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