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> [The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-westerfeld/the-rusty-ruins-were-the-remains-of-an-old-city-a-hulking-reminder-of/)

[Scott Westerfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-westerfeld/)

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> [I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/i-believe-the-world-grows-near-its-end-yet-is-neither-old-nor-decayed/)

[Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/)

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> [If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-lilley/if-you-over-think-it-affects-things-too-much-i-work-instinctively/)

[Chris Lilley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-lilley/)

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> [Images, not words, capture feelings in faces; nothing can ruin the atmosphere as easily as too much light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sven-nykvist/images-not-words-capture-feelings-in-faces-nothing-can-ruin-the/)

Sven Nykvist

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> [What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/what-is-experience-a-poor-little-hut-constructed-from-the-ruins-of/)

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

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> [Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-owen/consider-that-it-is-not-failing-in-this-or-that-attempt-to-come-to/)

[John Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-owen/)

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> [To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/to-savour-istanbul-s-back-streets-to-appreciate-the-vines-and-trees/)

[Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/)

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> [Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-elkeles/makin-mistakes-ain-t-a-crime-you-know-what-s-the-use-of-having-a/)

[Simone Elkeles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-elkeles/)

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> [All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carly-fiorina/all-the-things-i-resent-most-about-out-of-control-government-and-the/)

[Carly Fiorina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carly-fiorina/)

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> [If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/if-you-are-to-go-to-christ-do-not-put-on-your-good-doings-and-2/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-zerzan/we-can-either-passively-continue-on-the-road-to-utter-domestication/)

[John Zerzan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-zerzan/)

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> [Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-edison/perhaps-dandruff-is-the-excreta-of-the-mind-the-quantity-of-this/)

[Thomas A. Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-edison/)

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> [When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sun-tzu/when-the-higher-officers-are-angry-and-insubordinate-and-on-meeting/)

[Sun Tzu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sun-tzu/)

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> [“I'd plotted, as a child, to give my life to the Lord. In college, I'd lost this faith. Isolated, grief-wild, I'd picked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-o-kwon/i-d-plotted-as-a-child-to-give-my-life-to-the-lord-in-college-i-d/)

R. O. Kwon

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> [Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-josepha-hale/crackers-toasted-or-hard-bread-may-be-added-a-short-time-before-the/)

[Sarah Josepha Hale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-josepha-hale/)

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> [A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-chesterfield/a-rake-is-a-composition-of-all-the-lowest-most-ignoble-degrading-and/)

[Lord Chesterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-chesterfield/)

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> [But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/but-if-in-the-pursuit-of-the-means-we-should-unfortunately-stumble/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-do-not-admire-we-hardly-excuse-the-fanatic-who-wrecks-this-world/)

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

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> [The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-munger/the-cash-register-did-more-for-human-morality-than-the-congregational/)

[Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-munger/)

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> [And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltairine-de-cleyre/and-now-what-has-anarchism-to-say-to-all-this-this-bankruptcy-of/)

[Voltairine de Cleyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltairine-de-cleyre/)

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> [There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/there-is-no-lasting-happiness-outside-the-prescribed-cycle-of-painful/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/not-only-is-the-day-waning-but-the-year-the-low-sun-is-fiery-and-yet/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-trump/in-2009-pre-hillary-isis-was-not-even-on-the-map-libya-was-stable/)

[Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-trump/)

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> [Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-ghazali/remember-your-contemporaries-who-have-passed-away-and-were-your-age/)

[Al-Ghazali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-ghazali/)

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> [Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/paper-money-has-had-the-effect-in-your-state-that-it-ever-will-have/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/let-this-be-the-hour-when-we-draw-swords-together-fell-deeds-awake/)

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

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> [One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-godin/one-bad-review-doesn-t-ruin-my-day-because-i-realize-what-a-badge-of/)

[Seth Godin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-godin/)

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> [The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/the-american-press-has-the-blues-too-many-authorities-have-assured-it/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

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> [My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-bobin/my-films-have-a-lot-of-historical-context-i-m-a-huge-fan-of-ruins-you/)

[James Bobin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-bobin/)

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> [Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/thirteen-sovereignties-pulling-against-each-other-and-all-tugging-at/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/if-ever-a-time-should-come-when-vain-and-aspiring-men-shall-possess/)

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

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> [The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/the-odious-and-disgusting-aristocracy-of-wealth-is-built-upon-the/)

[Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/)

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> [Look past the garbage, over the trains, Under the ruins, through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me...where I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grandmaster-caz/look-past-the-garbage-over-the-trains-under-the-ruins-through-the/)

Grandmaster Caz

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> [Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meg-cabot/even-though-i-loved-to-write-i-never-liked-english-lit-class-very/)

[Meg Cabot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meg-cabot/)

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> [Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/oh-each-successive-night-that-comes-has-something-in-it-of-an/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

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> [Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-erdrich/talking-about-how-i-might-write-the-next-book-is-like-talking-about/)

[Louise Erdrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-erdrich/)

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> [I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-rothbard/i-want-to-make-it-clear-what-i-am-not-saying-i-am-not-saying-that/)

[Murray Rothbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-rothbard/)

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> [“There is, I find, something very evocative about ruins - particularly recent ones. (introduction to "Calico Black, Calico Blue")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-knight/there-is-i-find-something-very-evocative-about-ruins-particularly/)

Joel Knight

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> [Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-feather/nothing-will-ruin-an-interesting-intelligent-argument-more-quickly/)

[William Feather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-feather/)

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> [In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/in-the-acceptance-of-depravity-the-sense-of-the-past-is-most-truly/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

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                        "text": "Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.",
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                        "text": "Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins. No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth. Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.",
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                        "text": "Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.",
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                        "text": "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!",
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