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4f55baa All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way. commitment curelty endurance forgiveness harm health love relationship unkindness Bell Hooks
7e563ba If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage? deceit evil friend friends-betrayal harm life people rage society wrongdoing Molière
989e0bc I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day. ghosts harm mankind Alexandre Dumas
0065d00 I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system. confucianism disaster educational-system ethical-system harm humanity islam judaism monotheism useful virulent-god Gore Vidal
544989d There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes. funeral harm truth Agatha Christie
b91fb4f In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm. danger harm protection travel Tahir Shah
96b2e45 Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure. harm life risk risk-taking sacrifice Nassim Nicholas Taleb
6204dc8 Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. harm plausibility Nassim Nicholas Taleb