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• It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Engagement, Arguing, Polemics

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Sometimes, Protect, Persons

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• destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Easy, Creation, Difficult

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• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Giving, Littles

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• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  Oliver Tambo

  Country, May, Economic

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• In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Transmutation

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• That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

  Cordell Hull

  War, Mean, Scary

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• I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.

  Colin Powell

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

  Robert Kagan

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Administration

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• I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Gephardt

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Congressional reaction to Iraq resolution is mixed", www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

  Theodor Adorno

  Organization, Insane, Bigs

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mom, Mother, Destiny

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• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  E. M. Forster

  Growth, Literature, Genuine

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• Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Firsts, Power Corrupts

  Letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1821.

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• Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Years, Diversity

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• We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Easter, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "Mubarak: Arabs to Fight 'Scourge of Terrorism'". Joint News Conference with President Bush, edition.cnn.com. June 03, 2003.

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• The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.235, Best Books on

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• There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

  Tommy Franks

  War, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.394, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Anti War

  "Bush Speaks in Milwaukee". transcripts.cnn.com. October 03, 2003.

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• We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

  Mike Pence

  Pro Life, Dollars, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Should, Immoral

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.33, Lexington Books

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• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  Fisher Ames

  Volcanoes, Democracy, Way

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.24

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