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• I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

  Janet Frame

  Freedom, Discovery, Self

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• The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil, Mean People, World

  "Torii Hunter Addresses Police Shooting in Twins HOF Speech". Associated Press, www.usatoday.com. July 16, 2016.

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• There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dying, Novelists, Way

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.304, Vintage

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• Stubbornness destroys good advice.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Advice

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• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Revenge, Heart

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• Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

  Winona LaDuke

  Drinking, Native American, Water

  "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" by Winona LaDuke, progressive.org. June 18, 2013.

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• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Life, Father, Nice

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.

  Leon Brown

  Love, Work, Anger

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• Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption obscures reality without destroying it. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false..Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time.The mind creates time and space and takes its own creations for reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Thinking, Reality

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• We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.

  John Legend

  Country, Choices, Community

  "John Legend launches campaign to end mass incarceration". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.msnbc.com. April 14, 2015.

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• It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Country, Book

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• Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Creating, Risk

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• Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

  Philip Pullman

  Evil, Freedom Of Speech, Intellectual

  "Pullman defiant over US protests against Northern Lights" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Destroying Me, Asks, Night Circus

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.232, Random House

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• Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go.

  Rick Riordan

  Air, Doubt, Goats

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• I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Responsible

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• We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

  Stephen King

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.

  Amanda Hocking

  Hate, Mean, Ice Cream

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• This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

  Aldo Leopold

  Pain, Disappointment, Mistake

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

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• You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Home, World

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• We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, World, Way

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.130, Bantam

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• Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sometimes, Surrender, Ends

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