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• Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

  Leo Baekeland

  Children, Knowledge, Science

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• We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Gun, Hunting

  "Social media abuzz over Piers Morgan vs. Alex Jones" by Josh Levs, Ben Brumfield, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2013.

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• The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

  Azar Nafisi

  Attitude, Passion, Land

  Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin

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• It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always been bent on seeking each other's destruction by continual wars; and as force, when brought against us, can only be repelled by force; the chief support of war, must, after money, be now sought in chemistry.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Art, War, Mean

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• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  Sean Covey

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  "Glenn Beck Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

  Russel Honore

  Apples, Heartache, Hitting

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

  Criss Jami

  Fun, Care, Meaning Of Life

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.62, Criss Jami

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• I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Nice, Fall, Thinking

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• Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Crush, Men, Crow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.366

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• Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

  Jeff Goodell

  Ocean, Mean, Australia

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• This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Science, Men

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

  Michael Palin

  Sleep, Play, Needs

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• Create havoc, create destruction.

  Dennis Rodman

  Destruction

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• We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.

  Robert Rubin

  Choices, Environmental, Faces

  "Robert Rubin: How ignoring climate change could sink the U.S. economy" by Robert E. Rubin, www.washingtonpost.com. July 24, 2014.

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• But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Kings, America

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense”, p.34, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

  Jon Krakauer

  Heart, Appreciate, Youth

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Play, Knows

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these National Guard weekend warriors who wander into a world about which they know nothing and then wind up wreaking havoc on themselves.

  Keith Carradine

  War, Mean, Weekend

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• The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  India And Pakistan, Political, Victory

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Thinking, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

  Tsitsi Dangarembga

  Alternatives, Possibility, Spokes

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• It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rain, Atlanta, Sky

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• Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Kids, People

  "A Dirty Job". Book by Christopher Moore, 2006.

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• after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter, mostly because it seemed like the right thing to do. As soon as my java was piping hot I popped him into the microwave. hopefully the radioactive environment would sterilize Peter. No need to have little Peters running around, wreaking havoc.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Epic, Hot

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.8, St. Martin's Press

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• My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Jesus, Live For Today, Would Be

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