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• I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

  David Duval

  Swings, Gone, Problem

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• Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Book, Pages, Stewardship

  Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge

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• Capitalism is destroying the earth.

  Helen Caldicott

  Earth, Destroying The Earth, Capitalism

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• I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

  John Balance

  Believe, Reputation, Mystery

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• Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Cities, Humanity, Today

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• You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

  Judi Bari

  Addresses, Wilderness, Destruction

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• The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Doctors, Accepting, States

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• It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Baby, Eggs, Perfect

  Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit”, p.109, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

  Vandana Shiva

  Investment, Planets, Ifs

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• When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Artist, Discovery

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Thinking, Building

  "Colbert Channels ‘Dr. Strangelove’ To Solve Park51 Dilemma" By Katla McGlynn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

  Anais Nin

  Alive, Life Is, Moments

  "D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers" by Leo Hamalian, (p. 93), 1996.

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• We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.

  Otto Frank

  Needs, Nazi, Destroying Ourselves

  "Fictional character: Otto Frank". "The Diary of Anne Frank". Biography, www.imdb.com. 1959.

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• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

  David Graeber

  Suicide, People, Imagination

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• I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it's not ecologically intelligent at this point?

  William McDonough

  Beautiful, Children, Intelligent

  "William McDonough: Godfather of Green". WNYC Studio 360, March 18, 2008.

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• It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Organization, Economic Value, People

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• Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

  Steven Gerrard

  Motivational, Soccer, Creative Visualization

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• I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all

  Vinnie Paz

  War, Horror, Carnivores

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• Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

  Rick Owens

  Landscape

  "Is Rick Owens the new Karl Lagerfeld?" by Rachel Holmes, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2009.

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• When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Running, Commitment, Shopping

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• I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

  Robin Quivers

  Nuclear, Explosions, Destroying Everything

  "I Didn’t Tell!" by Robin Quivers, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built only on the sand of personality, and at the first serious shock the whole structure will crumble, perhaps destroying him in its fall.

  Rodney Collin

  Fall, Destiny, Men

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• So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Book, Writing, Way

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• Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Hair, Order, Community

  James Howard Kunstler (2007). “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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