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Benign Quotes

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Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.
Tommy Rettig

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
Michael McKean

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Mary MacLane

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
Kyle MacLachlan

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.
Jonathan Kozol

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.
Chevy Chase

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Giambattista Vico

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
Timothy Geithner

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.
Mitch McConnell

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
Cliff Stearns

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
William Wordsworth






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