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title: "Famous Ruins Words"
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> [The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/the-disaster-ruins-everything-all-the-while-leaving-everything-intact/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

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> [“He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/he-found-a-glimmer-of-hope-in-the-ruins-of-disaster/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/she-drank-a-glass-of-wine-and-looked-for-something-new-to-ruin-with/)

[Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/)

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> [Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rickitt/drugs-ruin-peoples-lives-break-up-families-and-have-disastrous/)

[Adam Rickitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rickitt/)

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> [Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products..](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-mcnealy/only-a-monopolist-could-study-a-business-and-ruin-it-by-giving-away/)

[Scott McNealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-mcnealy/)

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> [Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/where-there-is-ruin-there-is-hope-for-a-treasure/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

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> [Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-simmons/don-t-ruin-a-good-today-by-thinking-of-a-bad-yesterday-let-it-go/)

[Russell Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-simmons/)

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> [A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-young/a-soul-without-reflection-like-a-pile-without-inhabitant-to-ruin-runs/)

[Edward Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-young/)

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> [For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cheever/for-these-are-not-as-they-might-seem-to-be-the-ruins-of-our/)

[John Cheever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cheever/)

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> [The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-bonaparte/the-fate-of-war-is-to-be-exalted-in-the-morning-and-low-enough-at/)

[Napoleon Bonaparte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-bonaparte/)

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> [If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/usher/if-somebody-steps-on-your-shoes-and-ruins-them-don-t-freak-out-get-a/)

[Usher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/usher/)

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> [Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/veronica-webb/underwear-is-everything-because-we-all-know-that-if-we-have-on-the/)

[Veronica Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/veronica-webb/)

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> [Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeaniene-frost/killing-your-rival-doesn-t-guarantee-happiness-sometimes-it-ruins-any/)

[Jeaniene Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeaniene-frost/)

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> [“I was back on the scented hillside with the moon coming out above the ruins of the temple where nothing remains now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-stewart/i-was-back-on-the-scented-hillside-with-the-moon-coming-out-above-the/)

[Mary Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-stewart/)

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> [Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-webster/nothing-will-ruin-the-country-if-the-people-themselves-will-undertake/)

[Daniel Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-webster/)

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> [Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/who-sees-with-equal-eye-as-god-of-all-a-hero-perish-or-a-sparrow-fall/)

[Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/)

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> [What sense does it make to build a castle of illusions? We can live in it for a short time, but when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/what-sense-does-it-make-to-build-a-castle-of-illusions-we-can-live-in/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-chemistry-of-mind-is-different-from-the-chemistry-of-love-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/whether-barack-obama-is-simply-incompetent-as-president-or-has-some/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

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> [That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/that-time-of-year-thou-mayst-in-me-behold-when-yellow-leaves-or-none-2/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-nemerov/till-i-high-in-the-tower-of-my-time-among-familiar-ruins-began-to-cry/)

[Howard Nemerov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-nemerov/)

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> [In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grubbs/in-eighteenth-century-england-there-was-a-practice-of-hiring-a/)

[David Grubbs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grubbs/)

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> [The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-diamond/the-metaphor-is-so-obvious-easter-island-isolated-in-the-pacific/)

[Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-diamond/)

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> [Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/every-single-one-of-us-is-a-little-civilization-built-on-the-ruins-of/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/in-an-all-out-nuclear-war-more-destructive-power-than-in-all-of-world/)

[Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/)

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> [“The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/the-broken-pink-pillars-in-the-half-light-might-have-been-waiting-to/)

[Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/)

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> [...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/the-first-thing-you-do-at-the-end-is-reflect-on-the-beginning-maybe/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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> [Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/perhaps-the-heroic-element-in-our-natures-is-exhibited-to-the-best/)

[Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/war-is-a-culture-bellicosity-is-addictive-defeat-for-a-community-that/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-hanson/we-feel-a-deep-pleasure-from-realizing-that-we-believe-something-in/)

[Robin Hanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-hanson/)

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> [Don't slag off other creators or companies. We'll cheerfully mock dumb politicians on Twitter, but we try to never slam another creator's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-pak/don-t-slag-off-other-creators-or-companies-we-ll-cheerfully-mock-dumb/)

[Greg Pak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-pak/)

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> [Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/rochester-i-am-no-better-than-the-old-lightning-struck-chestnut-tree/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

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> [I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darrell-royal/i-do-not-let-a-bad-score-ruin-my-enjoyment-for-golf/)

[Darrell Royal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darrell-royal/)

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> [The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-sterling/the-ruins-of-the-unsustainable-are-the-21st-century-s-frontier/)

[Bruce Sterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-sterling/)

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> [Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-conan-doyle/of-all-ruins-that-of-a-noble-mind-is-the-most-deplorable/)

[Arthur Conan Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-conan-doyle/)

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> [How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-marriage-ruins-a-man-it-is-as-demoralizing-as-cigarettes-and-far/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-shortest-road-to-ruin-is-to-emulate-the-methods-of-your-adversary/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-fowles/how-can-one-build-a-better-self-unless-on-the-ruins-of-the-old/)

[John Fowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-fowles/)

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> [Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/crying-is-the-refuge-of-plain-women-but-the-ruin-of-pretty-ones/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-beale/you-resemble-what-you-revere-either-for-ruin-or-restoration/)

[Gregory Beale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-beale/)

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                        "text": "That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away...",
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                        "text": "Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.",
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                        "text": "The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.",
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                        "text": "“The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head. The shattered evil-smelling chapel, overgrown with weeds, the crumbling walls, splashed with urine, on which scorpions lurked - wrecked entablature, sad archivolt, slippery stones covered with excreta - this place, where love had once brooded, seemed part of a nightmare.”",
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                        "text": "...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.",
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                        "text": "Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.",
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                        "text": "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.",
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                        "text": "We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin.",
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                        "text": "Rochester: \"I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?\" Jane: \"You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.",
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