Destroying Quotes - Page 19

• There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Jobs, May, Bears

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• All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Self, People, Growth

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• Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!

  Leonard Read

  Teacher, Artist, Editors

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• Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Needs, Earth

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.

  Albert Einstein

  Climbing, Views, Creating

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• Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

  Dante Alighieri

  Language, Muse, Changed

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• I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

  Elvis Costello

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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• I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.

  John McCain

  Believe, Seven Months, Organization

  "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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• Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

  Haruki Murakami

  Important, Want, Life Is

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• Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a few thousand armed Druze, Christians, and Sunni can do if they decide to go hunting Shia in revenge for destroying their country.

  Michael Totten

  Christian, Country, Revenge

  "Lebanon’s Premature Liberalism". www.michaeltotten.com. July 26, 2006.

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• The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are very often not really what happened. And as I started to write stuff down, I started to challenge what I thought I knew about myself, my culture, my family, all of it. It was a huge, destroying process that completely took over my life. I just wasn't here, I mean I was physically present, but I wasn't here, I was back in the 1980s.

  Damian Barr

  Writing, Mean, Challenges

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature.

  Mirah

  Ecosystems, Oil, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

  Julia Stiles

  Running, Yoga, Focus

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

  Martin O'Malley

  Focus, Needs, Isil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

  Darl McBride

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Software

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• Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Acting, Purpose

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• I do not need help destroying my relationship. I was raised by my father. I've completed a thirty-year seminar on the power of destroying relationships.

  Christopher Titus

  Father, Years, Needs

  "Titus / The Break-Up". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Population, Three

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• The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Mother, Brother, Father

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Process, Interfere

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• Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Trying, Heartbreaking

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• While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Destroying Me, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.259, Princeton University Press

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• Iraq began destroying those missiles they don't have over the weekend. See, President Bush may be the smartest military president in history. First, he gets Iraq to destroy all of their own weapons. Then he declares war.

  Jay Leno

  Military, War, Weekend

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• You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed the negatives, floating the sheets in the correct acids and watching the faces and breasts and pubic triangles and sofas emerge. The making and destroying coming from the same source, same lust, same surgery his brain was capable of. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

  Michael Ondaatje

  Night, New Orleans, Hands

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “Coming Through Slaughter”, p.45, A&C Black

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• I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Everyday, Littles

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