Destroyed Quotes - Page 12

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

Stephen Covey

Fire, Earthquakes, One Day

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.148, Mango Media Inc.

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Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

Dave Barry

Funny, Humorous, Important

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.47, Crown Archetype

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In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

Paul Davies

War, Home, Moon

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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

Zygmunt Bauman

Self, Creative, Way

"Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

Henry Thomas Buckle

Men, Light, World

Henry Thomas Buckle (1868). “History of Civilization in England”, p.349

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God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

Norman Angell

Canada, Made, Nations

"Canada's Best Service for British Ideals". 1913.

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For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

Thomas Malory

Kings, Flower, Heart

Sir Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver (1975). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.

Adam Young

War, Cost, Causes

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When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

Steve Berry

Country, Past, World

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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

Karen Kingsbury

Running, Sadness, Mean

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When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

Nick Clooney

Class, Germany, Nazi

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If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.

Robert Cailliau

Want, Impossible, Accounts

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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Patrick Dempsey

Responsibility, People, Honor

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Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

William A. Dembski

Evil, Doubt, Suffering

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Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.

Robert Fisk

Iran, Trying, Nuclear

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Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

Blaise Pascal

Jesus, Garden, Race

Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

James Howard Kunstler

Home, Responsibility, Order

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I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

Rickie Lee Jones

Emotional, Levels

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We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

Nong ?uc Manh

War, Loss, Hands

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I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

Alexei Navalny

Country, Party, Thinking

"Net Impact". Interview with Julia Ioffe, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Pakistan, Reputation, Ifs

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Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.

Evan Peters

Thinking, World, Earth

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.

Joseph Warren

Patriotic, Law, Important

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...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Fighting, Enemy, Germany

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New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.

William Jennings Bryan

New York, Cities, Government

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