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“Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.”

Doe Information Damage Competitors Secrecy Withholding Withholding Information

“One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.”

Trying Humans Action Values Violence Becoming Mortals Damage Barbarians Human Values

Author:J. William Fulbright

“It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.”

Knows May Done Honest Information Originals Journalism Denial Journalist Damage Never Quit Printed Publication Prominent Truism

Author:Tom Wicker

“Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.”

Eye Suffering Honor Stones Damage Flaws Impurity Precious Stones

Author:Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.”

World Done Seems Artist Difficult Cases Impact Harm Reputation These Days Damage Relief Accusation

Author:Cat Stevens

“A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages.”

Pain Poetry Voice Poet Speech Weapons Fingers Lips Flesh Wounds Heal Ice Damage Wounded Precise Ruined Great Poet

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.”

“Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.”

People Way Persons Happiness Enjoy Conflict Office Unhappy Damage Mates Annoying Spouse Happy People Good Relationship Making People Happy Roommate Unhappy People Interpersonal

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.”

May Enough Social Levels Revolution Safe Tough Built Structure Democratic Dues Resistance Compromise Damage Tension Flexibility Techno

Author:Theodore Kaczynski

“If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.”

Ifs World Years Has Beens War Suffering Church United Democratic Seven War Of The Worlds Damage World War Ii World War I Seven Years Unification Unification Church

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

Bigs Spiritual Grows Space Cities Clear Greater Protect Unique Hunger Landscape Damage Homeland Settlement Big Cities Uncontrollable

Author:Fritz Todt

“All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.”

Trying Can Do Brain Pressure Damage Injury Treatment Initials Brain Injury Traumatic Brain Injury

Author:Charlie Cox

“What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.”

“Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.”

Knows Light Values Dark Damage

Author:Bill Luff

“What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.”

Facts Shows Economy Importance Damage Pulling Imports Sterling

Author:Adam Cole

“The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.”

People Giving Long Matter Running Names Serious Damage Long Runs Stereotype

Book:The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Source: The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

“The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.”

Ideas Reason Done House Bills Congress Damage Sand Senate

Author:Jonathan Alter

“Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.”

Stills Hands Courses Economy Century Fields Particular Fingers Wide Sensitive Rely Damage Enterprise Mechanism Thrust Nineteenth Century Clumsy

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.”

Men Long Has Beens Done Character Body Land Integrity Holy Standards Sorry Damage Decent Crusades Women's Bodies Holy Land

Author:Jack McDevitt

“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).”

War Republican Fingers Conviction Damage Shakes Fists Only Time Delayed Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.”

Effects Cost Damage Peg

Author:William Henry Maule

“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.”

“The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.”

Too Much Cutting Glasses Lovely Temptation Damage Sheets Seductive Pristine Lovely Things Colored Glass

Author:Judith Schaechter

“The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health at risk. Fundamentally, we believe that the protocol both will fail to significantly reduce the long-term risks posed by climate change and, in the short run, will seriously impede our ability to meet our energy needs and economic growth.”

“Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.”

Pain Drug Consequence Negative Thirds Finals Population Therapy Damage Injury Negative Consequences

Author:Craig Venter

“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).”

“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.”

Done Facts Results Destiny Doubt Plans Failure Politician Projects Intellectual Europe Finals Scales Planning Vanity Inevitable Classic Damage Monument Utopia Programmes Utopian Unified

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them- we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“I studied and worked in a Chinese restaurant to support myself. People would say to me 'Oh you must be missing home', but I had grown up hard. I was so happy to be there. I had never even been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.”

People Hard Home America Parent Support Doors Missing Let Me Opening Chinese Worried Damage Restaurants Supermarkets Refrigerators Coming To America

Author:Wendi Deng Murdoch

“Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.”

Self Action Values Attention Self Esteem Consequence Punishment Esteem Damage Goodwill Nonviolent Communication Intrinsic Value

Author:Marshall Rose

“The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.”

Done Humanity Theory Damage Calcium

Author:David Wolfe

“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.”

Film Used Views Watches Ignorance Damage Justify Racist Pseudoscience

Author:James D. Watson

“My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.”

Firsts Kind Real Jobs Film Actors Acting British Storm Agents Damage

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.”

People May Matter Hate Opinion Fine No Matter What Like Me Damage Hate Me Damage Control

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.”

Men Character Judging Eternity Reputation Damage

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.”

Interest Levels Society Ocean Disaster Rhythm Damage Resumes Devouring

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.”

Science Environment Mouths Leaving Population Atmosphere Damage Habitat Illiteracy Unprepared

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.”

May Helping Might Poor Brain Blood Theory Exercise Research Areas Flow Damage Blood Flow

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more”

Damage Calamity Magnitude Tsunami

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.”

Way Doe Hurt Animal Environment Baby Research Adults Damage Barren

Author:Temple Grandin

“all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.”

People Individual Struggle Individuality Discrimination Oppression Damage Outsiders Blank Blackness Outcast Prisms Gayness Fill In The Blank

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.”

Looks Has Beens Different Whole Reality Happens Past Turns Lost Levels Results Brain Wonder Pieces Impossible Happened Lows Damage Infidelity Our Past Potatoes Your Past Chunks Low Level

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.”

Firsts Whole Jobs Loss Effort Steps Team Direct Organization Aim Independent Management Profit Selfish Damage First Steps Components Clarification

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.”

Hard Grief Food Spots Damage Internals Tomatoes

Author:Julia Child

“If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.”

Ifs Should Claims Damage Employers Injured Liability Alimony

Book:Families, Marriages, and Children

Source: Families, Marriages, and Children

“I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.”

War Serious Property Damage Theft Nsa

Author:Barack Obama

“When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.”

Thinking Film Can Do Tvs Terrible Bases Damage Wire Sopranos

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.”

People Struggle Too Much Conditions Damage Pockets Firecracker

Author:Robert Plant

“We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.”

Knows May Art Country Culture Moral Hero Chaos Corruption Innocence Winner Our Time Damage Thrive Survivor Loser Popular Culture Paralyzed

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“To assess the damage is a dangerous act.”

Dangerous Damage

Book:Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios

Source: Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios

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