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If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

Mistake, Ignorance, Self

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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Bram Stoker

Roots, Evil, Selfishness

Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

E. O. Wilson

Homosexuality

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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Jack Kevorkian

Doctors, Trying, Ease

Jack Kevorkian (1991). “Prescription--medicide: the goodness of planned death”

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Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.

Karl Popper

Men, Thinking, Ideas

Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.189, Routledge

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Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

Russell Conwell

Money, Men, Hands

Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Plutarch

Failure, Failing

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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Walter Bagehot

Reflection, Doe, Melancholy

'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

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Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

Dalai Lama

Helping, Avoiding, Deals

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I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise people who harm animals? It's hypocritical! Why protect one and violate the other when neither one wants or deserves the abuse? They just wish it would end. Stop praising the innocence in children then ignoring or making fun of the innocence in animals.

Gary Yourofsky

Children, Fun, Hate

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Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in
harm's way every day, every week, every year.

James McGreevey

Years, Firefighter, Police

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The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

Dalai Lama

Practice, One Sentence, Sentences

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There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

Stella Reid

Nature, Mean, Eye

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All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

Michael Palin

Food, Cooking, Culinary

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Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Omar Suleiman

True Friend, Offending, Risk

FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

Demi Lovato

Feelings, Body, Sacred

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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

J. C. Ryle

Heart, Devil, Watches

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.154, Editora Dracaena

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The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Charles Spurgeon

Church, Would Be, Doing Good

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The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito ... As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito ... It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts ... must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache.

Marston Bates

Wall, Science, Cells

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The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.

John Edensor Littlewood

Math, Thinking, Numbers

John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities... to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.

John Cassian

Christian, Reading, Passion

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On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Jeff Cooper

Serious, Self Defense, Instant

Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

Henry David Thoreau

Spiritual, Nature, Serenity

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace,
Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your bended knees,
All beings on this earth, you must not harm them;
All weapons you hold deep within your heart, you must disarm them.
Every man you meet's your son.
Every woman is your daughter.
Go find someeone who's thirsty,
And give them water.

Butch Hancock

Music, Daughter, War

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Where you go, I go,
What you see, I see,
I know I'd never be me without the security,
Are your loving arms keeping me from harm
Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

Adele

Song, Hands, Arms

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