Destroyed Quotes - Page 30

• Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Stupid, Believe

  "Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

  Amy Tan

  Life, Lovely

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• It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Sacrifice

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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• It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Important, Energy, Remember

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• In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.

  Ted Andrews

  Essence, Energy

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Fun, Waiting, Bitter

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• Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Enemy, Constitution

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• No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Equality, Men, Enough

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1965). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letters, 1803-1818”

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• We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.

  Heinrich Himmler

  War, World, Problem

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• Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British Columbia [Canada]. This means the population of the beetles have exploded. They have destroyed more forests than all the environmentalists put together have saved.

  Mark Leiren-Young

  Mean, Together, Mountain

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• Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease. I believe [without evidence] that is the infallible word of God and that's the way it is going to be for his creation. The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

  John Shimkus

  Summer, Believe, Winter

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• I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Years, Oxford

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• Laughter not time destroyed my voice
  And put that crack in it,
  And when the moon's pot-bellied
  I get a laughing fit.

  William Butler Yeats

  Laughter, Moon, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Democracy, Ancient

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• Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Needs, Legends, Stuff

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• It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mean, Two, Evil

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.42, Library of Alexandria

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• For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.

  Julia Hill

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

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• He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Death, Lying, Men

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• By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

  Benjamin Graham

  Too Much, Investing, Pay

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.207, Prabhat Prakashan

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• An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Bears, Insult, Disposition

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.51

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• If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

  Richard Whately

  Wish, Would Be, Pleasure

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.297

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• There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God's ordained purpose for us.

  Paul P. Enns

  Heaven, Suffering, Purpose

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.15, Moody Publishers

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• For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Wall, Past

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• Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.

  Sallust

  Stronger, Doe, Needs

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