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• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, War, Enemy

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• Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Son, Years

  Jane Austen (2008). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.285, Penguin

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• Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away.

  Graham Greene

  Light, Opposites, Clothes

  "Books that make you cry: share your weepiest moments" by Moira Redmond, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

  George MacDonald

  Evil, Slaying, Be Good

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1525, e-artnow

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• When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Hurt, Eye

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1075, Random House

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• There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

  Kate Chopin

  Depression, Sorry, Struggle

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• I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

  Raymond Carver

  Dream, Morning, Insomnia

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.391, Vintage

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• That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Night, Law

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.94, Macmillan

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• In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

  Georges Bataille

  Harmony

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• Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Determination, Commitment

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

  Joel Salatin

  Land, Agriculture, Tools

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .

  Max Nordau

  Clever, War, Government

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• [The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Wish, Faults

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• Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Today, Way, Reason

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• I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.

  James Mace

  Country, Simple, Ukraine

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• If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which will lead to their annihilation.

  Mohsen Rezaee

  Crush, Islamic, Israel

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• The Iranian regime calls for the annihilation of Israel, it oppresses its own citizens, it's part of the murder going on in Syria and it's building an atomic bomb.

  Mark Regev

  Israel, Citizens, Bombs

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• If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Suffering, Clay

  William Jennings Bryan (1968). “The Credo of the Commoner”

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• Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Buttons, Tape

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2016

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• What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

  Epicurus

  Men

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• Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

  Al Yankovic

  Boys, Games, Nuclear

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• Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Religious, Differences

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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• When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Eternal progression is eternal bondage; annihilation of form is to be preferred. We must get free from any body, even a "god-body". God is the only real existence, there cannot be two. There is but One Soul, and I am That.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Names, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.

  Joanna Macy

  Heart, Our World, Soul

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