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• Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
  "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
  "Yes. I want to ruin you."
  "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Fall, Want

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• Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war and emphasize cunning strategy as a means to victory, Morihei understood that continued fighting-with others, with ourselves, and with the environment-will ruin the earth. “The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, War, Book

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Men, Race, Other Worlds

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• It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.

  George Q. Cannon

  Rome, Evil, Records

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• And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Ambition, Imagination, Good Intentions

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• His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

  John Milton

  Excess, Brightness, Losing

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.42

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• Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Ambition, Self Confidence

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.107, FV Éditions

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• In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

  Albert Mohler

  Life, Impatience, Neglect

  FaceBook post by Albert Mohler from May 15, 2014

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• In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Earth, Financial

  Barack Obama's speech on Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2012.

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• The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2368, Manonmani Publishers

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• No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

  Amelia Barr

  Men, Finals, Anticipation

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.116, Litres

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• He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

  Thomas Adams

  Positive, Bridges, Demand

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• It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front - sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Animal, Agency

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• The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Men, Mind, Looks

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Country, People, Needs

  "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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• My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Country, People, Style

  "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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• Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

  Jon Ronson

  Religious, Political, Economy

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.

  Andrew Gilligan

  Iraq, Economy, Electricity

  "Little chance country's nightmare will end soon". www.standard.co.uk. February 14, 2005.

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• We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

  James Inhofe

  Should Have, Environmental, Earth

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• Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Ideas, Debris, Symbols

  "Anselm Kiefer’s Remembrance of Things Past" by Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Grace, Has Beens

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.14, SCM Press

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• Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

  Leopold von Ranke

  Humans

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• The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality-who will press toward his object while death is impending over him-who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Men, Sublime, Energy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 239, 1895.

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• Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.

  Kevin R. Stone

  Cancer, Numbers, Looks

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• I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

  Lindy West

  Broken Heart, Believe, Bad Relationship

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