"Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it."
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"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."
"There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself."
"Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."
"What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life."
"The harm done is often difficult to repair."
"To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world."
"I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?"
"The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'"
"Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built."
"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm."
"My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual."
"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble."
"Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better."
"None can cure their harms by wailing them."
"Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm."
"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm."
"There is a time when even justice brings harm."
"No one can crave what truly harms him."
"When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect."