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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther

  Men, Light, Creative

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• We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Needs, Emotion

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• The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

  Timothy Keller

  Sin, Right Now

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• A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

  David Deida

  Men, Quality, May

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• Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

  Joyce Meyer

  Creative, Negative, Our Words

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• I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

  Howe Gelb

  Mean, Thinking, Hands

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• Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.

  Noam Chomsky

  Problem, Well Known, Ownership

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Winning, Past, Our World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, America, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He's buffered from being a criminal.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Beautiful, Kids, Self

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the quality of the civilization has not improved. It's a civilization that's in love with technology but forgetting about the human side of it and the destructive tendency in human civilization has not been faced.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Technology, Civilization, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's been written about as "the overview effect." All I can give you is my perspective, but most all of the people who have been in space start to see the world without boundaries. You start to think about how we can keep doing these things we're doing that are destructive of the environment and destructive of the planet. It causes you to start to think things in a quite different way than we had before.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Thinking, Space, Perspective

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.

  Bill Laswell

  Mean, Thinking, Space

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• Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Moral, Force, Combat

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.169, Aegitas

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• Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

  Paul Carus

  Self, Expression, Spirit

  Paul Carus (2013). “History of the Devil”, p.449, Lulu Press, Inc

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• But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Criticism

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “Of Human Bondage (人性枷鎖)”, p.390, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• My vision of a better world would be one under the control of a strong United Nations, one that truly has the support of all countries in the world. Only an effective world government could provide sufficient law and have the power to control the unboundaried destructive forces of pollution and war. I will continue to be a leader in the World Federalist Association.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Country, Strong, War

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• One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Pleasure, Uncertain

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• When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Eight, Self

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.

  William Davis

  Cutting, People, Goal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

  Laura Moriarty

  Beautiful, Real, Intelligent

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.

  Leonard Read

  Country, Responsibility, Men

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• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

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• Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Relief, Fiber

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• Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Political, Foundation

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