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• North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Competition, Peaceful, Territory

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• But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

  Jacob Neusner

  Christian, Religious, Order

  Jacob Neusner (1991). “The Twentieth Century Construction of "Judaism": Essays on the Religion of Torah in the History of Religion”, University of South Florida

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• Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Mind, Television

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• In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fashion, Light, Race

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• a fortress against ideas and against the
  Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
  The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
  Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

  Louis MacNeice

  Men, Ideas, Crumbling

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

  Jimmy Reid

  Race, Self, Silence

  "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

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• Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless of others opinions or our own fears. Sometimes this courage has been buried beneath years of shaming that may have been so implicit or insidious that we breathed it in, unaware of how it separated us from knowing our own beauty of being. May we each know our own beauty & right to be today. May we drop down into the heart of the lion within & say to shame, when it rears it's head, "Not today!"

  Oriah Dreamer

  Inspirational, Heart, Others Opinions

  FaceBook post by Oriah Mountain Dreamer from May 07, 2013

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• Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.

  E.W. Jackson

  Children, Teaching, Parent

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• But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

  Thomas Hardy

  Wish, Want, Fancy

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.120, Thomas Hardy

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• I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Thinking, Years, People

  " Is this a feminist statement?" by Muriel Gray, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2002.

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• You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.

  Nat Hentoff

  Technology, Government, Be Careful

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and
  only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries,
  or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage
  that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the
  diseases of aging.

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Long, Example

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• I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Smart, Believe, Museums

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.

  Jim Carroll

  Long, Brain, Purpose

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Lying, Responsibility, People

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• Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.

  Martha Manning

  Cancer, Erosion, Doors

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• The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

  Denis Diderot

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Views, Traitor

  Remarks By George Bush at the Dedication Ceremony, www.cia.gov. April 26, 1999.

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• Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  People, Verbs, Return

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• Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

  Robert Lacey

  Noise, Modern, Pollution

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• One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  America, Avid, Hands

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• Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.

  Gabor Mate

  Breakup, Pain, Stress

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• There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

  Helen Keller

  Race, Profit, Blindness

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

  Margaret Cho

  Years, Drug, Affair

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.64, Ballantine Books

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