Destroyed Quotes - Page 29

• For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Struggle, Civilization, Generations

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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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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• I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.

  Andy Spade

  Ocean, Years, Cities

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• It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the culpability off their shoulders. The Islamic State is a product of the Iraq War. It took about a 100 years to build the Iraqi state, and the Americans and the British destroyed it in an afternoon.

  Vijay Prashad

  War, Islamic, Years

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• It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.

  Tim Waterstone

  Book, Simple, Together Again

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• Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

  Ansel Adams

  Children, Legacy, Splendid

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• We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

  Carl Sagan

  Rocks, Humanity, World

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Obstacles, Rigor

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• The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Lying, Believe

  "Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency". Book by Elliot L. Jurist, 2000.

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• When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

  Billy Graham

  Family, Society, Baptists

  Twitter post from Jul 12, 2013

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• Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Freedom, Abuse, Society

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 04, 2013

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• Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

  R. D. Laing

  Self, Way, Behavior

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

  Zhang Yimou

  Piracy

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• A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Powerful, Hatred, Baha

  "When a Thought of War Comes, Oppose It By a Stronger Thought of Peace: Baha’i Inspiration Amidst Disunity" by Homa Sabet Tavangar, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• I’d always heard that when you truly love someone, you’re happy for them as long they’re happy. But that’s a lie. That’s higher-road bullshit. If you love someone so much, why the hell would you be happy to see them with anyone else? I didn’t want the easy kind of love. I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

  Julie Murphy

  Crazy, Lying, Long

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• Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and earthquakes as our prophecies said would come. Why do animals act like they know about the earth's problems and most humans act like they know nothing? If we humans do not wake up to the warnings, the great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds were destroyed.

  Thomas Banyacya

  Animal, Earthquakes, Giving

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• Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

  Rodney Stark

  Long, Triumph, Arrogant

  "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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• God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

  Dale E. Turner

  Judging, Trying, One Day

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• When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

  Marieta Maglas

  Suffering, Losing, Natural

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• Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Unique, Opportunity

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• If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

  Zhuangzi

  Effort, Understanding, Taoism

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• I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

  Karl Rove

  Flames, Towers, Citizens

  Speech at a Fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 2005.

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• England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Strong, Team

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I'd have DESTROYED Premier League defences if I'd moved to England" by Dave Kidd, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2014.

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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• I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.

  Nas

  Trying, Energy, Flesh

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