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“[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.”

People Thinking Should Children Made Done Ability Television Window Damage Household Small Child

Author:Laurie Colwin

“one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?”

Feels Matter Lost Race Lord Awareness Taught Sick Western Guilty Damage Sane What Matters Behalf Urgency Civilisation

Author:Dervla Murphy

“hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.”

Hate Hatred Inevitable Damage

Book:Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir

Source: Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir

“The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.”

People Feels Trying Use Problem Emotional Atmosphere Damage Hopeless

Author:Margaret Halsey

“Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.”

Source: The Face of War

“the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.”

Men Seems Girl Careers Fashion Particular Type Pages Magazines Damage Charm Psychics Editorials Playboy

Author:Alison Lurie

“We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.”

World Use Jobs America Responsibility Poverty United States Environment Conflict Prosperity Partners Damage Fewer Good Job Adversaries Our Environment Shared Responsibility

Book:Hard Choices

Source: Hard Choices

“This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.”

People Humans Might Able Half Support Planets Comfort Limits Environmental Population Billions Damage Relative Population Control Human Population Environmental Damage

Author:Eric Pianka

“How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.”

Long Action Spiritual Church Damage Feeding Obesity Gout

Author:J. G. Holland

“With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy.”

I Can Able Force Enemy Land Majors Luck Rate Heavy Damage Invaders Invading

Author:Yoshijiro Umezu

“Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?”

Children Parent Harm Damage

Book:Consenting Adult

Source: Consenting Adult

“A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.”

Giving Firsts Persons Purpose Strong Given Perfect Numbers Break Circles Permanent Damage Wheels Shock Spokes Surprising Bumps Sustaining Meaning Life Rims Hub

Author:Oveta Culp Hobby

“When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.”

Age Capable Threat Terrorist Damage This Day Homeland Hoping For The Best

Author:George W. Bush

“Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.”

Ifs World Kind America Impact South Enormous Meat Damage Beans Amazon South America Tofu Soy Impact On The World

Author:Michael Pollan

“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”

Ifs Father Causes Brain Family Break Caught Damage Marijuana

Author:Tom Dreesen

“Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.”

Easier Murder Property Damage

Book:Blindsight

Source: Blindsight

“Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.”

Ifs Way Years Book Suffering House Water Novel Sky Praise Presses Damage Dozen Ecology Basements

Author:Lev Grossman

“I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.”

Knows My Own Bases Presses Damage Call Me Publicists Damage Control

Author:Megan Fox

“John Kerry had surgery on his right shoulder this week to repair some damage. It was pretty bad, he had no feeling. It was almost like he was a Republican.”

Feelings Week Republican Shoulders Damage Surgery John Kerry

Author:David Letterman

“The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.”

Way Feels Doe Facts Loses Results Produce Weight Permanent Diets Damage Our Society Agreement About Yourself Mentality Dieting Lose Weight Positive Results

Book:Diets don't work

Source: Diets don't work

“Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.”

Industry Promise Reputation Consumers Damage Fragile Cheat Delay Builder Fragile Things Warranty Consumer Confidence

Author:Virginia Knauer

“Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.”

Way Children Feelings Mother Easy Alive Emotional Burden Damage Absent Orphan Knots Filial

Author:Eileen Simpson

“I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.”

Littles Play Bits Dark Darkness Comedy Little Bit Balls Damage Brown Mixtures Murphy Dark Comedy Murphy Brown

Author:Joelle Carter

“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.”

“I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.”

“In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.”

Thinking Knows Mean Hands Reading Walks Novel Rivers Crosses Skins Dear Damage Delusion Hand In Hand Beckett Latches

Author:Brian Evenson

“Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.”

People Giving Rooms Movement Argument Damage Suspicion Cojones

Author:Nick Clegg

“I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.”

Trying Humans Stupid Creatures Relation Profound Mess Damage Sooner Or Later Ecology Inadequate Pessimist Human Relations

Author:A. S. Byatt

“The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.”

Young Left Millions Five Generations Grew Grew Up England Property Hearing Damage Riot Brits

Author:Bob Barr

“When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.”

Giving Program Give Me Coaches Damage

Author:Yohan Blake

“Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.”

Horrible Damage Touched Hacks

Author:Charlie Pierce

“There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.”

Opportunity Numbers Conditions Employment Worried Damage Mexico Transformed Live Every Day

Author:Enrique Pena Nieto

“Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.”

“I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.”

“Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.”

Doe Different Body Happens Numbers Type Amount Damage Machinery Comprehensive Ageing Small Numbers Cellular

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.”

People Want Suffering Results Type Disease Various Damage Lifelong Accumulation Cellular Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Disease

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.”

Body Damage Accumulation Ageing

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.”

World Done This World Holy Devil Damage

Book:Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.”

Earth Mother Water Animal Company Taken Oil Damage Mother Earth Creeks Oil Companies

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.”

Way Kind Country Can Do Threat Terrorism Contrary Terrorist Reactions Despite Our Country Damage Fearful Rhetoric Transcendent Terrorist Attacks

Book:Bruce Schneier on Trust Set

Source: Bruce Schneier on Trust Set

“The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.”

Kind Done Can Do Novel Violence Worst Danger Fingers Psychological Damage Lifting Often Is Backdrop Damage Is Done

Author:Lisa Unger

“I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.”

People Form Intellectual Regard Intellect Sexuality Damage Insisting Damage Control

Author:Leora Tanenbaum

“Money is a tool that can either fix or damage your life. Use it wisely.”

Use Tools Damage Financiers

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the equivalent energy of the dinosaur-killing collision between Earth and an asteroid 65 million years ago. Whatever damage Jupiter sustained, one thing is for sure: it's got no dinosaurs left.”

Years Earth Moving Energy Left Millions One Thing Years Ago Killing Damage Extinction Dinosaurs Chunks Collision Jupiter Comets Asteroids

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.”

Kind Problem Today Levels Deals Disease Tools Ill Damage Ill Health Cellular

Author:Ralph Merkle

“I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.”

Want Honest Damage Sexually

Author:Mary Oliver

“The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.”

Years Sometimes Done Reality Ten Twenties Damage Thought Provoking

Author:Chinua Achebe

“If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.”

Ifs Children Brain My Children Damage Better Life Brain Dead

Author:Mike Tyson

“A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.”

People Thinking Want Feels Looks Happens Kids Pain Certain Fine Damage Resilient Dysfunctional Family Painkillers

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.”

People Humans May Facts Truth Felt Sides Conditions Perception Absolutes Affair Variety Damage Absolute Truth

Author:Pearl S. Buck

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