Destroying Quotes - Page 14

• Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.

  Woodie Flowers

  Competition, Sake, Results

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• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

  David Graeber

  Suicide, People, Imagination

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• We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.

  Otto Frank

  Needs, Nazi, Destroying Ourselves

  "Fictional character: Otto Frank". "The Diary of Anne Frank". Biography, www.imdb.com. 1959.

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• So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Baby, Eggs, Perfect

  Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit”, p.109, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Doctors, Accepting, States

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• You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

  Judi Bari

  Addresses, Wilderness, Destruction

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• It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Organization, Economic Value, People

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• Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

  Steven Gerrard

  Motivational, Soccer, Creative Visualization

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• Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

  William Maxwell

  Soul, Cameras, Lenses

  William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.77, Random House

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• The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).

  James H. Cone

  Mean, Ghetto, White

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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• Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Hair, Order, Community

  James Howard Kunstler (2007). “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Book, Writing, Way

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• Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built only on the sand of personality, and at the first serious shock the whole structure will crumble, perhaps destroying him in its fall.

  Rodney Collin

  Fall, Destiny, Men

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• I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

  Robin Quivers

  Nuclear, Explosions, Destroying Everything

  "I Didn’t Tell!" by Robin Quivers, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Running, Commitment, Shopping

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• One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

  Paul Broun

  Medicine, America, Doctors

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death destroying, and those who embrace it find forgiveness of sin.

  Arcturus Z. Conrad

  Bible, Christian, Running

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• The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

  Ayn Rand

  Mother, Children, Passion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.745, Hamilton Books

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• I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all

  Vinnie Paz

  War, Horror, Carnivores

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• This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State. This meant much at the time; it means much now and will continue to be the beacon of light and guidance for ourselves and of other nations. All that is good and practical and wise in the new developments can best be worked out under our form of government without destroying any of the basic principles upon which it rests.

  Oscar Straus

  Wise, Mean, Light

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.

  Chalene Johnson

  Giving, Weight, Body

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• When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Artist, Discovery

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

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