Destructive Quotes
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When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.
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It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.
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Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Over the years our research team has repeatedly found that chronic emotional abuse and neglect can be just as devastating as physical abuse and sexual molestation.1 Sherry turned out to be a living example of these findings: Not being seen, not being known, and having nowhere to turn to feel safe is devastating at any age, but it is particularly destructive for young children, who are still trying to find their place in the world.
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We may think we are smarter than all other animals, but our destructive acts to nature and other animals do not validate this.
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Some twenty boys sat behind wilfully collapsible desks, occupying their brief intermission in various more or less destructive and useless ways.
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The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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Our unleashed words can be every bit as damaging and destructive as any other kind of aggressive outburst.
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
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After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it naive Religion sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.
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There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.
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On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
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Scientology is destructive and a rip-off.
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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
