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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
Let's face it: if you're an elite basketball player and you choose to be socially and politically active, it could harm your brand.
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
I try so hard to be tolerant of everyone and their choices, but people who harm pets or support factory farming have an enemy in me.
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'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
What we've done as a country is, we've said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.
I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.
I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.
I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.
A big player coming in can change the dynamics of the dressing room, upset the rhythm of the team and end up doing more harm than good.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.
We need the cooperation of the Pakistanis. If we don't have any, we lose insight into the actions of those who would do our country harm.
I planted trees but the idea that you can offset carbon is nonsense - planting trees is more a way of acknowledging harm and apologising.
Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
There is no harm in making people laugh by making fun of yourself. What's wrong is when people derive pleasure from making fun of others.
I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
People want to feel good about the choices they make. They want to know they're choosing material that's not going to harm the environment.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.
There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.
We are the Conservative and Unionist party. No Conservative would do anything to harm the union, and that crucially includes Northern Ireland.
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.
I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way.
I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Complex digestive conditions harm the physical and emotional well-being of many children, but GI research is severely undervalued and underfunded.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.
America, at its core, is a country of strong and resilient people who are prepared to confront the challenges posed by those who seek to do us harm.
For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.