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• Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Independent, Responsibility, Self

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• You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Beautiful, Believe, Love You

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• Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivation, Self, Waiting

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.169, Ballantine Books

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• There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was far more important to me to self-destruct than to admit I had a problem, let alone allow anyone to help.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Lying, Self, Important

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• She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

  John Green

  Hate, Teenager, Stupid

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• I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dark, Self, Shadow

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• Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

  Matthew Burton

  Procrastination, Self, Destruction

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• When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

  John Cheever

  Heart, Self, Sand

  1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.

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• I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

  Davey Havok

  Believe, Self, Drug Use

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• Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.

  Bonnie Baker

  Writing, Our World, Self

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• Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

  Ian Stevenson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Self

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• There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe, their talent. They call it the green-eyed monster for a reason. It's a self destructive and when it's in the room, it consumes you. Be strong and don't focus on what other people have.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Self, People

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• Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Hate

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.175, Penguin

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• You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

  Jillian Michaels

  Self, People, Bottom

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• When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.

  Erma Bombeck

  Self, Years, Water

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• Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Self, Want, Rooms

  Song: Hood Politics, Album: To Pimp a Butterfly, 2015

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• I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.

  Patricia McConnell

  Thinking, Self, Amphetamines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Self, Ego

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

  Ethan Hawke

  Successful, Self, Chance

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

  Pete Seeger

  Determination, Believe, Fall

  Source: portside.org

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• A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Way, Waste

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.796, Spectra

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• I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Dream, Hate, Book

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• Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Fall, Future

  Song: Revelation, Album: Blizzard of Ozz

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• We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

  Shannon Hoon

  Self, People, Taste

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• The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

  Tom Stoppard

  Science, Technology, Self

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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