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• Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

  Berel Wein

  Blessed, Justice, Generations

  Berel Wein (1990). “Triumph of Survival: The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1990”, p.14, Mesorah Publications

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• Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed.

  Frank Smith

  Song, Book, Writing

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• Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

  David Tudor

  Made, Should, Disposable

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• A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Support, Atheism

  Edward De Bono (1972). “PO: a device for successful thinking”

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• The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Law, Chemistry, States

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• When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Kings, Order

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• Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

  GG Allin

  Rocks, Names, Rock N Roll

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• As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Real, Men, Two

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• After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Democracy, Germany, Firsts

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• So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  "Sex and Destiny". Book by Germaine Greer, 1984.

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• Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

  Caetano Veloso

  Cities, Built, Knows

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• In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

  Jacobus Arminius

  Men, Grace, Useless

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• It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

  Charles Addams

  Dog, People, Childhood

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• I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Gabe Newell: "Windows 8 Is Kind Of A Catastrophe" By Dan Crabtree, www.ign.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

  C. Everett Koop

  Life, Mother, Baby

  "‘Yes to Life! No to Abortion!’ Tens of Thousands March Against Abortion in Spain" by Heather Clark, christiannews.net. November 23, 2014.

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• This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Cancer, Cutting, Cells

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• If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Motivation, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  Andy Grove

  Good Company, Bad Company, Crisis

  Said in December 1994. "Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel". Book by Albert Yu, p. 93, 1998.

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• The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

  Frederick Buechner

  Strong, Reality, Steel

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

  Will Durant

  War, Struggle, Rome

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Truth, Ravens, Ark

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.342

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• I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

  Clive Anderson

  Growing Up, Tree, Landscape

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• Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Self, Age

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• To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Views, Government, Perfect

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• The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

  Dick Costolo

  Funny, Zero, Thoughtful

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