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"I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see."
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Personal Development
"The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good."
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Personal Development
"When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good."
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"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
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Personal Development
"Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient."
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"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
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Personal Development
"The unspoken word never does harm."
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Personal Development
"Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed."
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Personal Development
"I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun."
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Personal Development
"Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm."
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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."
People
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
American
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Progress
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
Change
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
Man
"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
Wisdom
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