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The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off… — Steven Pressfield
No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. — Martin Van Buren
Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control. — Juan Gabriel
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its… — Emma Goldman
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would… — Andre Gide
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence… — Joseph Heller
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any… — Alexander Herzen
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James… — George R. R. Martin
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to… — Leo Tolstoy
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in… — William Shakespeare
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry… — Frank Zappa
Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value… — Karen Marie Moning
The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out… — George Orwell
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it.… — Joseph Heller
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to… — Jonathan Swift
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most… — Steven Erikson
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution… — Richard Dawkins
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our… — Adam Smith
World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps — Rohinton Mistry
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the… — John Bradshaw
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in… — C.S. Lewis
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off… — Steven Pressfield

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