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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about habits

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Quote by William Falconer about bills, life

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war, man, nothing

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about common sense, war, end, things

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Quote by Alexis Carrel about jealousy, life