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• All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Creativity, Effort, Creative

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• An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Agriculture, Today

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• Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.

  Chris Hedges

  Real, Ecosystems, Surveillance State

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• Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Anger, Evil

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• Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger. These problems can be resolved thanks to human efforts by understanding that we are brother and sister and by developing this sense of closeness. We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.

  Dalai Lama

  Brother, Responsibility, Men

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• Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, Doe, Way

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.185, American Liberty Press

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• We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.

  Ed Asner

  Mother, Loss, Quality

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• Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Civilization, People

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

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• There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

  Carmen Lawrence

  Communication, Media, Politician

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• The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Fall, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Differences, Interpretation, Stimulation

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• Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spirit, Socialism, Type

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Commencement address at Harvard University, June 7, 1978.

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• The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

  Desmond Tutu

  Rights, Challenges, Earth

  "Facing One of the Greatest Human Rights Challenges of Our Time" by Jackie Jenkins-Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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• The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

  John Calvin

  Men, Source

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.235, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Achievement, Peaceful

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

  R. A. Torrey

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Charles Leach, R. A. Torrey “Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God”, Moody Publishers

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• For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

  Starhawk

  Healing, May, Stills

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction also represents a serious danger. If these weapons were to fall into the hands of terrorists, and they pursue this aim, the consequences would be simply disastrous.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fall, Mass Destruction, Hands

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• Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and against Iranians during their long war, so we know that weapons of mass destruction are existent with the Iraqis.

  Richard Armitage

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.

  Richard Armitage

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, President

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• Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take a devastating action or to transfer a weapon of mass destruction to someone else who will. After September 11th, it is simply no longer an option to sit back and contemplate an enemy - one with a stated intent to harm us, a track record and the means, and just wait for him to strike in order to protect ourselves.

  Richard Armitage

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Eight, Mass Destruction

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• I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.

  Ari Fleischer

  Stupid, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Dick Cheney's speech for Bush-Cheney '04 in Austin, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 7, 2003.

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• Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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