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> [The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-de-la-fontaine/the-ruins-of-a-house-may-be-repaired-why-cannot-those-of-the-face/)

[Jean de La Fontaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-de-la-fontaine/)

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> [What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/what-s-past-and-what-s-to-come-is-strew-d-with-husks-and-formless/)

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

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> [The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-hoover/the-course-of-unbalanced-budgets-is-the-road-to-ruin/)

[Herbert Hoover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-hoover/)

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> [“These fragments of book mean that I work in ruins.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarice-lispector/these-fragments-of-book-mean-that-i-work-in-ruins/)

[Clarice Lispector](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarice-lispector/)

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> [The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-mckendree-bounds/the-world-needs-more-true-praying-to-save-it-from-the-reign-and-ruin/)

[Edward McKendree Bounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-mckendree-bounds/)

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> [You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-lukashenko/you-need-to-control-the-country-and-the-main-thing-is-not-to-ruin/)

[Alexander Lukashenko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-lukashenko/)

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> [“It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-s-a-corey/it-was-funny-he-thought-how-the-ruins-of-the-past-shaped-everything/)

[James S.A. Corey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-s-a-corey/)

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> [I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-india-to-rise-on-the-ruin-of-other-nations/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/without-a-belief-in-my-programme-and-without-an-acceptance-of-my/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/there-are-men-in-the-world-who-derive-an-exaltation-from-the/)

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

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> [Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-jones-gunn/bad-friends-could-ruin-your-whole-life-be-wise-when-it-comes-to/)

[Robin Jones Gunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-jones-gunn/)

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> [We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/we-all-want-things-to-stay-the-same-settle-for-living-in-misery/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/a-man-who-is-free-is-like-a-mangy-sheep-in-a-herd-he-will-contaminate/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/instead-of-finding-alternative-energy-sources-we-try-to-subjugate/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [“No matter how angry she was at him, she'd never deprive him of the change to see one of the ruins he'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kass-morgan/no-matter-how-angry-she-was-at-him-she-d-never-deprive-him-of-the/)

[Kass Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kass-morgan/)

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> [It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norm-macdonald/it-is-often-better-to-be-restricted-to-necessity-than-unconfined-in/)

[Norm MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norm-macdonald/)

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> [Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-neufeld/digital-intimacy-ruins-the-appetite-for-the-real-thing-so-when-kids/)

[Gordon Neufeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-neufeld/)

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> [“It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/it-s-hard-as-hell-to-hold-onto-your-dignity-when-the-risen-sun-is-too/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-cartland/to-sleep-around-is-absolutely-wrong-for-a-woman-it-s-degrading-and-it/)

[Barbara Cartland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-cartland/)

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> [And tar is washing up onto the beaches - big globs of tar. And people are saying, 'Is that going to ruin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-letterman/and-tar-is-washing-up-onto-the-beaches-big-globs-of-tar-and-people/)

[David Letterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-letterman/)

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> [If i would ever fall in love…I'm sure I would want that person to belong to me. I'd make them all mine…but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naoko-takeuchi/if-i-would-ever-fall-in-love-i-m-sure-i-would-want-that-person-to/)

[Naoko Takeuchi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naoko-takeuchi/)

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> [“If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justus-von-liebig/if-you-want-to-become-a-chemist-you-will-have-to-ruin-your-health-if/)

[Justus von Liebig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justus-von-liebig/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/now-men-think-with-regard-to-their-conduct-that-if-they-were-to-lift/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/why-shouldn-t-the-death-of-a-person-you-love-bring-you-into-lurid/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austen-henry-layard/on-all-sides-as-far-as-the-eye-could-reach-rose-the-grass-covered/)

[Austen Henry Layard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/austen-henry-layard/)

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> [Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-prange/books-are-never-harmless-they-either-strengthen-us-or-they-weaken-us/)

[Peter Prange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-prange/)

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> [Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/let-us-consider-brethren-we-are-struggling-for-our-best-birthrights/)

[Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/)

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> [W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mortimer/w-h-auden-once-suggested-that-to-understand-your-own-country-you-need/)

[Ian Mortimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mortimer/)

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> [There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/there-are-a-sort-of-knight-errants-in-the-world-who-quite-contrary-to/)

[Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-addison/)

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> [Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/ah-sinner-remember-this-there-is-no-way-on-earth-effectually-to-be/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

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> [... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selma-lagerl-f/i-see-the-green-earth-covered-with-the-works-of-man-or-with-the-ruins/)

[Selma Lagerlöf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selma-lagerl-f/)

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> [ If we consider the actual basis of this information \[i.e., intelligence\], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-von-clausewitz/if-we-consider-the-actual-basis-of-this-information-i-e-intelligence/)

[Carl von Clausewitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-von-clausewitz/)

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> [Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brendan-behan/ninety-seven-saint-days-a-year-wouldn-t-affect-the-theater-but-two/)

[Brendan Behan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brendan-behan/)

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> [“I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-pears/i-have-a-theory-that-too-much-learning-unbalances-the-mind/)

[Iain Pears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-pears/)

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> [Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/anger-is-like-those-ruins-which-smash-themselves-on-what-they-fall/)

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

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> [Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-young/final-ruin-fiercely-drives-her-ploughshare-o-er-creation/)

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

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> [With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/with-ruin-upon-ruin-rout-on-rout-confusion-worse-confounded/)

[John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/)

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> [Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-freschi/simon-fraser-university-would-make-an-elegant-ruin/)

[Bruno Freschi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-freschi/)

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> [It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-william-de-forest/it-is-not-the-great-temptations-that-ruin-us-it-is-the-little-ones/)

[John William De Forest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-william-de-forest/)

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> [Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/confucius/those-who-make-virtue-their-profession-are-the-ruin-of-virtue/)

[Confucius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/confucius/)

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                        "text": "Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.",
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                        "text": "Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.",
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                        "text": "Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.",
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                        "text": "W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.",
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                        "text": "There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.",
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                        "text": "Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.",
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                        "text": "... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!",
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                        "text": "If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.",
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