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Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters. -- David Wolfe
To read too many books is harmful. -- Mao Zedong
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. -- Thomas Mann
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. -- King James I
I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. -- Henry Rollins
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. -- Galileo Galilei
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. -- Clint Eastwood
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. -- Arnold Bennett
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. -- Agnes de Mille
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification. -- Lady Gaga
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You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. -- Roman Polanski
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. -- Pierre Curie
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. -- S. Jay Olshansky
You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions. -- Thomas Piketty
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability. -- Jim Clyburn
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. -- Larry Elder
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. -- Charles Krauthammer
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
We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in. -- Adam Hamilton
Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate. -- Tristram Stuart
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful. -- Ha-Joon Chang
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. -- Peter Kropotkin
If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph. -- Robert Sheehan
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. -- Leland Ryken
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. -- Alex Ferguson
I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down. -- Salman Khan
Accidental stacks considered harmful. -- Larry Wall
Go To statement considered harmful. -- Niklaus Wirth
False shame only is harmful. -- Livy
All art critics are useless or harmful. -- Umberto Boccioni
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. -- Eckhart Tolle
All religions are both harmful and untrue. -- Bertrand Russell
Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The evil plan is most harmful to the planner -- Homer
Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real. -- Adam Fletcher
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism. -- Roger Ebert
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -- Thomas Huxley
Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple! -- John Wooden
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little. -- Ellen Glasgow
Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. -- Noam Chomsky
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence. -- Victor Hugo
Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development. -- Ha-Joon Chang
The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it. -- Fred Brooks
Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you. -- Rumi
The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development. -- John B. Larson
Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few. -- Victor Papanek
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. -- Noel Coward
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness. -- Franz Grillparzer
War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. -- Ludwig von Mises
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. -- Charles Stross
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. -- Leo Tolstoy
Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work. -- Bertrand Russell
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. -- Leo Tolstoy
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. -- Alfred North Whitehead
There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them -- Victor Papanek
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. -- Michel de Montaigne
There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job, -- J. K. Simmons
It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you. -- John Wooden
When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. -- Michele Bachmann
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle." -- Michele Bachmann
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough. -- Osho
If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out. -- Doris Roberts
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. -- William Glasser
Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody. -- Alain Juppe
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. -- Giacomo Leopardi
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful. -- Steven Yeun
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. -- Paul Krugman
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. -- Man Ray
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another. -- Idries Shah
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. -- Vaclav Havel
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. -- Hesiod
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. -- Bill Walsh
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. -- Jeff Merkley
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. -- Bertrand Russell
Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense. -- Motobu Choki
It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to. -- Marcus Aurelius
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. -- Thomas Sowell
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done. -- Charlie Chaplin
There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health. -- Herbert Benson
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead. -- Plutarch
And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration. -- Nancy Pelosi
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it. -- Michel de Montaigne
I love cigarettes. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is. -- Sienna Miller
A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors. -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems. -- Randy Gage
A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher. -- Steven Magee
There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences -- Vincent de Paul
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -- Thomas Huxley
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. -- William James
Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine. -- Maia Szalavitz
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous. -- Vladimir Putin
In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children. -- Norman Geisler
We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities. -- Graca Machel
Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting. -- Gwen Ifill
The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way. -- Samuel Hahnemann
Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids. -- Maia Szalavitz
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. -- Dana Rohrabacher
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes. -- Ted Bundy
Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship. -- Christie Hefner
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. -- Bill Gates
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. -- Trent Reznor
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. -- John Grierson
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ... -- Edith Sitwell
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons. -- Pema Chodron
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful. -- Bertrand Russell
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful. -- Robert Webb
It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude. -- Rafael Nadal

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