Destructive Quotes
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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
Lee Iacocca
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If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.
Natalie Portman
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I have a theory that theories are destructive.
Carl Whitaker
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
Paul Krugman
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In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Having books published is very destructive to writing.
Ernest Hemingway
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All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.
Daniel J. Mitchell
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With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.
Ernest Holmes
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Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
Menander
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The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.
Tobias Smollett
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Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.
Michael Robotham
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No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.
Margaret Mitchell
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Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
Joy Williams
