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• All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Revolution, Rebellion, Creation

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• Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

  Andrew Greeley

  Clouds, Mass Destruction, Mushrooms

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• Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fight Club Book, Disaster, Fight Club Novel

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Self

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

  Walter Benjamin

  Suicide, Character, Feelings

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.542, Harvard University Press

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• They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

  Janet Reno

  Technology, Mass Destruction, May

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• Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love Is, Confusion, Afraid Of Change

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.108, 谷月社

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• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

  Karl Marx

  Civilization, Environmental, Done

  Karl Marx, David Fernbach (1981). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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• Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

  Voltaire

  Passion, Angel, Play

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• A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

  G. H. Hardy

  Life, Science, Distribution Of Wealth

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 21 (1940)

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• There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

  Edward Kennedy

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Tyrants

  "Ted Kennedy Lays Out Case Against War With Iraq". www.cnn.com. September 27, 2002.

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• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  Fighting, Decision, Demon

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• Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction. If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future. Saddam will strike again at his neighbors; he will make war on his own people. And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Transcript: President Clinton explains Iraq strike". www.cnn.com.

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• I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

  Ari Fleischer

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 10, 2003.

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• It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Believe, Mass Destruction

  "House Members Feel Pressure Over Resolution". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. October 10, 2002.

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• Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Pride, Parent

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• The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

  Walter Lippmann

  Time, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Genius, Rust

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• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Men, Society

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, May, Mankind

  "The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part I): The Friend".

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• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Hussein, Weapons

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Fear, Islamic, Pride

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,

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• Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Creative, Essentials, Facts

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.83, Routledge

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• You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Fall, Roots

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