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• I don't know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people when it is absolute poison. When it is absolutely destructive.

  Matt Dillahunty

  Compassion, People, Trying

  "I've transcribed Matt Dillahunty's beautiful rant on The Atheist Experience 696 for your reading pleasure. Most likely a gigantic waste of time, but someone might have a use for it". Interview on "The Atheist Experience", rebrn.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Emotion, Problem

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• It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

  Dalai Lama

  Exercise, Important, May

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• Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

  Robert Herjavec

  Rejection, Viruses, Sensitive

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• Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.

  James Lovelock

  Ideas, Age, Tasks

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• The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

  John G. Lake

  Evil, Creative, Glory

  "Your Power In The Holy Spirit".

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• Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

  Bill Hybels

  Track, Invites

  Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.148, Tyndale House

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• As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Emotion, Buddha Nature

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• Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn’t welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

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• The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sin, Isolated, Persons

  "Life Together".

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• We all want to live a happy life and have a right to do so, whether through work or spiritual practice. I'm subject to destructive emotions like anger and jealousy the same as you, but we all have potential for good too. However, our existing education system is oriented towards material development; neglecting inner values. Consequently we lack a clear awareness of the inner values that are the basis of a happy life.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Happy Life, Practice

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• I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.

  Louise Hay

  Heart, Doubt, Mind

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 29, 2015

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• One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Real, Party

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

  Dalai Lama

  Technology, Hatred, Greed

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• Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, Lying

  "Is There Hope for Francis on Gay Rights?" by Richard Socarides, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2013.

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• The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Government, Personality, World

  Jeffrey Tucker's Facebook post, www.facebook.com. May 24, 2013.

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• There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Love You, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

  Ernest Holmes

  Prayer, Creative, Pills

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.937, Penguin

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• The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

  Mike McGavick

  Payroll Tax, Increase, Made

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• It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

  Alex Kingston

  Important, Shy, Body

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• There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

  John Oliver

  Two, Hecklers, Kind

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, tv.avclub.com. April 7, 2011.

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• I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

  Lili Taylor

  Character, Play, Female

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

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• Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Gossip, Examination, Incidents

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• And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

  James Otis

  Book, Opportunity, Hands

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Average, Symbolism

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