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• Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Memories, Generations, Records

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

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• Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

  Judd Apatow

  Holocaust, Parent, Realizing

  Judd Apatow (2015). “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy”, p.386, Random House

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• The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

  Simon Winchester

  Light, Profound, Events

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• Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible.  By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

  Ruth Wisse

  Home, Men, America

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• It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Winning, Men, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 561), 1895.

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• Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Heart, Past, Ivy

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

  Albert Pike

  Teaching, Justice, Unjust

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

  Jean Anouilh

  Greatest Love, Plus, Amour

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• But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

  Aeschylus

  Soulmate, Passion, Heart

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Reality, Government

  "Flowering Judas". "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter, The Modern Library, 1940.

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• The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

  Randall Jarrell

  Done, Causes, Reason

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 149, 1969.

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• The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.

  Alfred de Musset

  Past, Curiosity, World

  "Confession d'un Enfant du Siécle". Book by Alfred de Musset, 1836.

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• Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

  Sophocles

  Men, May, Gains

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

  Sophocles

  Men, Gains

  Antigone, 222 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Dirty, Littles

  Letter to A.N. Kanaev, March 26, 1883.

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• Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

  Horace Walpole

  Beautiful, Regret, Wrinkles

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• War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Years, Long

  "Why Are We in Kosovo?" by Susan Sontag, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 1999.

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• A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.

  Norbert Wiener

  Order, Community, Healthy

  "The Human Use of Human Beings". Book by Norbert Wiener, XI. Language, Confusion, and Jam. p. 193, 1950.

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• I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.

  Betty White

  Cute, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

  Karrine Steffans

  Long, Decision, Forever

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Heart, Eye

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• Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Empires, Expeditions

  Autograph letter from De Quincey addressed to J.A. Hessey, December 3, 1823.

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• Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Fabric

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

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• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Men, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.11

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• Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Blow

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.205, OUP Oxford

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