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• The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Down And, Way, Terrorist

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• There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

  Russ Carnahan

  Israel, Iran, Doubt

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• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Islands, Erosion, Wetlands

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• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Children, Sapphires

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

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• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Mean, Israel

  The Times, August 5, 1980.

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• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  Warren Buffett

  Mass Destruction, Investing, Weapons

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.78, John Wiley & Sons

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• Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  Ward Churchill

  Politics, Innocence, Results

  "Ward Churchill’s Case To Win Back His Job At CU-Boulder To Be Heard By Colorado Supreme Court Today" by Matt Ferner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.

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• Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

  Howard Berman

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iran

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• What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

  Julio Cortazar

  Literature, Helping, Ifs

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.491, Everyman's Library

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• The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

  Bernard Dowiyogo

  People, West, United Nations

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• Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

  Brad Pitt

  Self, Improvement, Fight Club Book

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• The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

  Frank Gaffney

  Oil, Trying, Enabling

  "Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg". www.foxnews.com. August 13, 2005.

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• In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

  Courtney Love

  Rocks, Self, Economic

  "22 Candid Quotes That Might Make You Love Courtney Love". www.popsugar.co.uk. July 10, 2014.

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• Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Poison, Beast

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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• There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Humanity, Risk, Literature

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• Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Reality, Epidemics

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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• The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

  Tony Blair

  Real, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  "Bush, Blair Decry Hussein" by Karen DeYoung, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2002.

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• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Body, Politics, Causes

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.248, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Circles, Mind, Elements

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

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• There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Party, Burning, Courses

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• I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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