Whim worshipping only leads to self destruction, and any one is free to destroy themselves.

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"They found out how you could make them destroy themselves, " the former official said.

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Greedy investors obviously played a part, but investors have always been greedy, and some inevitably overreach and destroy themselves.

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The audience passionately roots for Pandora's survival, everyone learns that all living beings are connected and that those who seek to exploit nature rather than respect it will only destroy themselves.

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But high-stakes standardized testing actually pushes these schools to destroy themselves, wiping out the programs that actually do deliver value to these high-aptitude students and instead focusing on teaching to the tests.

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They include compounds that block bad genes responsible for spreading cancer into the bones, chemicals that prompt prostate cancer cells to destroy themselves and vaccines that train the body's killer T-cells to seek and destroy tumor cells.

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