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Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.

Robert Bork

Mean, Winning, Views

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Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may say it has never yet returned-you cannot say that it will not. It is blasphemy to say a bit of metal has destroyed life, just as it is presumptuous to say that because life has disappeared it has been destroyed. I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew-no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.

Robert Leckie

Sound, Gone, May

Robert Leckie (2015). “Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]”, p.301, Pickle Partners Publishing

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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Gary Shteyngart

Thinking, Ideas, Empathy

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

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Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

Karl Polanyi

Men, Self, Ideas

Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr

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America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

Muhammad Ali

Lynching, Earthquakes, America

"This is the Legend of Muhammad Ali, the Greatest Fighter That Ever Will Be". Interview, www.playboy.com. June 3, 2016.

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When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Wall, Writing, Paper

Source: www.independent.co.uk

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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Men, People, Next

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Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

Thomas Sowell

Teacher, Children, Teaching

Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

Jean Fautrier

Painting

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Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

Bill Gross

World, Finance, Economy

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Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

Lisa Randall

Magic, Cynicism, Detachment

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Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Louise Erdrich

Powerful, Other Cultures, Vitality

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I dont have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

Gail Devers

Iodine, Medication, Treatment

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What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

David Simon

War, Drug, Havens

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Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

Norman Mailer

Country, America, People

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Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

Tony Verna

Football, Games, Momentum

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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Clarence Darrow

Long Ago, Bylaws, Moral

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We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

Mohammed Omar

Scary, Percent, Left

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It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Girolamo Savonarola

Book, Scary, Would Be

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When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

John le Carre

Ignorance, Experts, World

John le Carre (2004). “The Russia House: A Novel”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

Art, Doubt, Might

Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

Henry David Thoreau

Music, Wise, Drinking

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.

Wallace Stevens

Time, Mind, Proud

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.339, Vintage

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... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.

Marcel Proust

Love, Fall, Despair

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We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

Franz Kafka

Luck, Pieces, Paradise

Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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