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• What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

  Laura Riding

  Husband, Sadness, First Love

  "Lives of Wives". Book by Laura Riding, 1939.

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• For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Running, Airplane, Technology

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• Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don’t take a hard look at risk, it will take you.

  Larry Hite

  Careers, People, Risk

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• Treasure is stored in the ruined places.
  Do not break the hearts of the poor
  and heartbroken people

  Rumi

  Heartbroken, People, Treasure

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• I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Quality, Able

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• I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Shopping, People, Want

  " I always wanted to be a pop star..." by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2002.

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• Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Sometimes, Mercy

  'Moses in the Bulrushes' (1782) pt. 1, l. 35

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• The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

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• To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Poetry Is, Honour

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.47, GENERAL PRESS

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• The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

  Judd Apatow

  Bother

  Judd Apatow (2015). “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy”, p.385, Random House

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• Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Powerful, Crafts, Causes

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.12, Knickerbocker Classics

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• You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Art, Powerful

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• More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, People, Victory

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

  Marshall Berman

  Ruins

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• Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Libertarian, Violence, Currency

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• When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

  Simon Van Booy

  Mistake, Loving Life, Trying

  Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

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• What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Men, Our Generation, White

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.27, Penguin

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• Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Bravery, Excess

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.218, Hackett Publishing

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• I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Drinking, Grief

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• He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

  François Lelord

  Regret, Years, Long

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.9, Gallic Books

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• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

  John Updike

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

  Carson McCullers

  Atheist, Heart, Afternoon

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Children, Hands

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• For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.

  Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake

  Wall, Spring, Blessed

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• The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Apes, Rich

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 941, 1856.

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