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Damaging the enemy financially is fair game. -- Alex Pacheco
Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right. -- Francis G. Slay
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. -- Roy Hattersley
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. -- Maurice Strong
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually. -- John M. McHugh
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term. -- Samantha Power
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness. -- John Sentamu
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. -- William James
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. -- George Orwell
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case. -- Bill James
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. -- Dean Koontz
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. -- Vernon Howard
Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging. -- Seth Shostak
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. -- Lauryn Hill
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust. -- Jose Rizal
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud. -- David Cameron
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. -- Barack Obama
We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved. -- Chuck Grassley
In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda. -- Franklin Graham
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. -- Nigella Lawson
I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance. -- James Gleick
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way. -- Joyce Meyer
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. -- Anthony Carmona
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. -- Gloria Steinem
I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it. -- Jack Dee
Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos. -- Jack Canfield
I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that. -- Timothy Geithner
How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects. -- Gloria Reuben
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Fake love, is just as damaging as open hate. -- Anthony Liccione
If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity? -- Steven Wright
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking. -- Rick Warren
Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche. -- Emma Stone
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state. -- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. -- Terence McKenna
I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other. -- Vera Farmiga
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. -- William Faulkner
I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor. -- Molly Parker
The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie. -- Amit Kalantri
Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom. -- Ann Patchett
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong. -- Abraham Lincoln
The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.' -- Grace Hopper
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. -- Timothy Geithner
The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging. -- Deborah King
No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts. -- H. L. Mencken
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure. -- Peter Drucker
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! -- Scott Kahn
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage. -- Sharon Salzberg
The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion. -- Napoleon Hill
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually." -- John M. McHugh
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug. -- Terence McKenna
In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids. -- Jhonen Vasquez
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate. -- Jeffrey Wright
When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time. -- Natasha Henstridge
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche. -- Romola Garai
Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you! -- Tommy Smothers
Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. -- Leslie Jamison
We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging. -- Laura Huxley
Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring. -- Marjorie Hillis
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. -- James Agate
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging. -- Paul Allen
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence. -- Cornel West
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. -- Marisha Pessl
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government. -- Chen Guangbiao
Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy. -- Vladimir Putin
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion -- Khaled Hosseini
Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. -- John Kennedy Toole
We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly. -- Albert Einstein
Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging. -- Joyce Meyer
Free your mind of the damaging clots of bias, being kind only to your own kind isn't kindness at all -- Constance Chuks Friday
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. -- Lawana Blackwell
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. -- Khaled Hosseini
Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul. -- Pamela Moore
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness. -- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself -- Jimmy Carter
I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose. -- Sandra Bernhard
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural. -- Sri Chinmoy
The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you. -- Robert Holden
The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person. -- E. F. Schumacher
The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships. -- James Hunter
I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real. -- Bill Nighy
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. -- Brooke Shields
Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism. -- David Perlmutter
You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement. -- Josh Sugarmann
Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging? -- Aaron Paul
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state. -- Alexander Cockburn
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read. -- Khaled Hosseini
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? -- Joseph Henry Jackson
Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell? -- Richard Dawkins
Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. -- Brian Weiss
Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. -- Brian Weiss
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . . -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. -- Jack Adams
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude -- William James
Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future. -- Fred Krupp
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. -- Peter McWilliams
The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust. -- Alan Johnson
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village. -- Gautama Buddha
At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot. -- Martina Sorbara
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage. -- James D. Watson
I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it. -- Jamaica Kincaid
You're really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination. -- Hazel Henderson
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal. -- F. Lee Bailey
Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large. -- Maajid Nawaz
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. -- Aberjhani
Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares. -- Allan Savory
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. -- Aberjhani
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. -- Seymour Papert
Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important. -- Donna Tartt
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. -- Edward McKendree Bounds

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