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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man
Creative
Darkness
Light
Walk
Will
Every
Destructive
Must
He
Altruism
Selfishness
Decide
Whether
Every Man
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
Kate Middleton
Too
Addiction
Complex
Destructive
Impact
Devastating
Simply
Shattered
Families
Hugely
Disease
Often
Lives
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty
Destructive
Equally
Without
Order
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.
Anthony Bourdain
Food
Great
Evil
Destructive
Sloth
Embrace
Hurting
About
Mentality
Know
Cheerful
Lots
Yes
America
Gets
Oh
Convenience
Us
Fast
Fast Food
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
Life
Nature
Own
Human Nature
Think
Our
Viruses
Says
Destructive
Purely
About
Something
Only
Computer
Count
Computers
Human
Form
Far
Created
Should
Image
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
Eartha Kitt
Greed
Everything
Destroys
Destructive
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm
Hate
Envy
Feeling
Virtue
Guise
Out
Destructive
Moral
Indignation
Contains
Perhaps
Permits
Which
Much
Acted
Phenomenon
Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.
Emily V. Gordon
Time
You
Human Being
Matter
Hurts
Long
Long Time
Recipient
Destructive
Through
Emotionally
Divorce
Takes
Feel
Most
Go
Normal
Human
Being
Experiences
Again
Hard
Traumatic
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali
Vision
Our
Considers
Destroys
Destructive
Shackles
Only
Limiting
Surrealism
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Day
Man
Words
Important
Calm
Tree
Fragmentary
Analysis
Alive
Destructive
Self
Fade
Come
Becomes
Sound
His
Truly
Done
Again
Whole
Grows
Things
Beloved
Night
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts
Technology
People
Universe
Destructive
Only
Hands
Same
Process
Realize
Who
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
Government
Respect
Law
Nothing
Destructive
Laws
More
Passing
Than
Cannot
Which
Land
Enforced
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
Brene Brown
Positive
Courage
Guilt
Our
Destructive
Shame
Powerful
Disengagement
Just
Influence
While
Fuels
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
Happiness
Great
People
Little Things
Ruined
Destructive
Slowly
Most
Repetition
Errors
Little
Things
Fatal
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Eckhart Tolle
You
Mind
Rightly
Destructive
Superb
More
Put
Wrongly
Instrument
Becomes
However
Very
Accurately
Use
Used
Uses
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
Henri Nouwen
Life
Lonely
Destructive
Without
Becomes
Quiet
Center
Place
The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.
Michael Leunig
Man
Power
Control
Earth
Sign
Insatiable
Destructive
Ruthless
Most
Force
Heartless
Irresponsible
Incompetent
Need
We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
Alice Miller
People
Way
Destructive
Childhood
Them
Produce
Treating
Once you understand what a messy, emotional, and destructive dynamic 'fairness' can be, you can see why 'fair' is a tremendously powerful word that you need to use with care.
Christopher Voss
You
Word
Care
Tremendously
Once
Destructive
See
Emotional
Powerful
Fair
Fairness
Messy
Understand
Dynamic
Use
Why
Need
The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.
Frances Beinecke
Science
Events
Dangerous
Will
Weather
Unleash
Extreme
Destructive
Tells
Temperatures
Rise
Devastating
Fail
Global
Global Warming
Accelerate
Reduce
Pollution
Warming
Us
Sea
Level
Levels
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Christopher Lasch
Life
Family
Loyalty
Values
Destructive
Logic
Consumerism
Permanence
Family Life
Different
Set
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair
Success
Failure
Creative
Risks
Opportunity
Destructive
Thoughtless
High
Risk
More
Risk-Taking
Seize
Taking
Perhaps
Course
Caution
Goal
Any
Essential
Where
Which
Inaction
Stakes
Even
Wasteful
Chance
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
Luke Rhinehart
Destructive
Religious
Buddhists
Common
Certainties
Belief
Thing
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell
Great
Thought
Free
Destructive
Habit
Merciless
Institutions
Terrible
Comfortable
Privilege
Revolutionary
Established
Subversive
Swift
Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Cotton Mather
Ignorance
World
Out
Destructive
Shall
Chase
Done
Thee
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume
Alone
Society
Our
Possessions
Insatiable
Ourselves
Destructive
Directly
Goods
Perpetual
Friends
Acquiring
Nearest
Universal
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