"Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love."
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"Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm."
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"There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes."
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"There are times when even justice brings harm with it."
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"Good men do the most harm."
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"I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm."
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"Harm seek, harm find."
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"Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone."
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"Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm."
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"Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else."
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"We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm."
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"Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes."
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"The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it."
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"Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance."
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"See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich."
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"As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed."
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"That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within."
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"If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong."
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"If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?"
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"Committees do harm merely by existing."
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