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> [She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-joel/she-can-kill-with-a-smile-she-can-wound-with-her-eyes-she-can-ruin/)

[Billy Joel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-joel/)

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> [Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rigoberta-menchu/today-the-governments-of-latin-america-should-be-ashamed-of-not/)

[Rigoberta Menchu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rigoberta-menchu/)

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> [Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/ruin-eldest-daughter-of-zeus-she-blinds-us-all-that-fatal-madness-she/)

[Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/)

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> [In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-hamilton/in-a-government-framed-for-durable-liberty-not-less-regard-must-be/)

[Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-hamilton/)

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> [Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eddings/behold-vo-mimbre-mandorallen-proclaimed-with-pride-queen-of-cities/)

[David Eddings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eddings/)

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> [Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien-2/did-he-say-hullo-pippin-this-is-a-pleasant-surprise-no-indeed-he-said-2/)

[J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien-2/)

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> [All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/man-ray/all-my-life-i-have-painted-pictures-so-that-certain-people-would-drop/)

[Man Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/man-ray/)

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> [A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasper-fforde/a-missing-arm-might-ruin-your-symmetry-personal-asymmetry-where-i/)

[Jasper Fforde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasper-fforde/)

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> [Sometimes I think there’s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-thomas-ford/sometimes-i-think-there-s-someone-up-there-just-sitting-around/)

[Michael Thomas Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-thomas-ford/)

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> [I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/i-ve-seen-it-before-there-are-women-who-spread-ruin-through-no-fault/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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> [Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-quarles/be-as-far-from-desiring-the-popular-love-as-fearful-to-deserve-the/)

[Francis Quarles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-quarles/)

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> [The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-percy-whipple/the-very-large-very-respectable-and-very-knowing-class-of/)

[Edwin Percy Whipple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-percy-whipple/)

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> [Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-marshall/roman-history-was-kind-of-unavoidable-where-i-was-growing-up-it-was/)

[Neil Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-marshall/)

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> [If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/if-i-dropped-a-tear-upon-your-hand-may-it-wither-it-up-if-i-spoke-a/)

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

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> [I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hamilton-leithauser/i-m-always-writing-music-i-sort-of-do-it-obsessively-for-good-or-for/)

[Hamilton Leithauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hamilton-leithauser/)

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> [In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/in-most-mills-only-the-best-portions-of-the-best-trees-are-used-while/)

[John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/)

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> [If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mollison/if-you-get-someone-who-looks-after-himself-and-those-around-him-that/)

[Bill Mollison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mollison/)

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> [When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/when-a-man-is-just-and-firm-in-his-purpose-the-citizens-burning-to/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-dear/slowly-i-learnt-the-ways-of-humans-how-to-ruin-how-to-hate-how-to/)

[Nick Dear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-dear/)

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> [All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/all-who-contribute-to-the-overthrow-of-religion-or-to-the-ruin-of/)

[Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/)

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> [In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-mclain/in-paris-you-couldn-t-really-turn-around-without-seeing-the-result-of/)

[Paula McLain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-mclain/)

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> [“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-ois-ren-de-chateaubriand/but-instead-of-this-peace-which-i-dared-to-expect-what-anguish-has/)

[François-René de Chateaubriand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-ois-ren-de-chateaubriand/)

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> [Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-day/contentment-and-happiness-didn-t-exist-in-my-life-for-more-than-a-few/)

[Sylvia Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-day/)

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> [Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryjanice-davidson/here-i-am-just-wandering-down-a-deserted-street-in-the-middle-of-the/)

[MaryJanice Davidson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryjanice-davidson/)

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> [Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/perhaps-his-gloom-was-due-to-his-profession-that-he-lived-among/)

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

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> [The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gross/the-market-can-move-for-irrational-reasons-and-you-have-to-be/)

[Bill Gross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gross/)

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> [Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blackstone/gaming-is-a-kind-of-tacit-confession-that-the-company-engaged-therein/)

[William Blackstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blackstone/)

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> [The left has been able to destroy conservatives, dispatch conservatives, to ruin conservatives simply on the basis of accusing them or illustrating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/the-left-has-been-able-to-destroy-conservatives-dispatch/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/once-capital-becomes-an-idol-and-guides-people-s-decisions-once-greed/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [“You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blue-ghostghost/you-think-too-much-and-i-bet-it-kills-the-magic-he-says-simply-some/)

[Blue GhostGhost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blue-ghostghost/)

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> [Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-dworkin/men-are-rapists-batterers-plunderers-killers-these-same-men-are/)

[Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-dworkin/)

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> [Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gay/man-may-escape-from-rope-and-gun-nay-some-have-outlived-the-doctor-s/)

[John Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gay/)

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> [I'm no expert in what country artists go through or how country audiences would react, but I'll say that the work I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-carmack/i-m-no-expert-in-what-country-artists-go-through-or-how-country/)

[Chris Carmack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-carmack/)

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> [Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/very-few-of-the-people-who-accentuate-the-futility-of-life-remark-the/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/there-must-be-a-new-world-if-there-is-to-be-any-world-at-all-these/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

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> [Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-scott/vitamins-ruined-my-life-not-that-there-was-much-left-to-ruin-but/)

[Elizabeth Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-scott/)

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> [I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/i-removed-the-freeway-from-its-temporal-context-overpasses/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-gore/we-can-t-negotiate-the-facts-we-can-t-negotiate-the-truth-about-the/)

[Al Gore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-gore/)

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> [Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/look-for-yourself-and-you-will-find-in-the-long-run-only-hatred/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright-2/when-jerusalem-is-destroyed-and-jesus-people-escape-from-the-ruin/)

[N. T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-t-wright-2/)

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                        "text": "Behold Vo Mimbre,\" Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, \"queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this field met they their ruin. The soul and pride of Arendia doth reside within that fortress and the power of the Dark One may not prevail against it.\" \"We've been here before, Mendorallen,\" Mister Wolf said sourly.",
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                        "text": "Did he say:\"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!\"?No,indeed!He said:\"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick\" -Pippin Took",
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                        "text": "All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.",
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                        "text": "A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village.\" \"Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?\" \"Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.",
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                        "text": "Sometimes I think there’s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there’s an angel—or, more likely, a demon—assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.",
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                        "text": "I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.",
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                        "text": "Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.",
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                        "text": "The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.",
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                        "text": "Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?",
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                        "text": "If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!",
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                        "text": "I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.",
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                        "text": "Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.",
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                        "text": "“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything of fortune, dashed against every strand, long exiled from my country, and finding on my return only a cabin in ruins and friends the grave -- such was to be the fate of Chactas.”",
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                        "text": "Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that would just ruin my whole evening.\" I strolled and hummed, trying to project Innocent Victim.",
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                        "text": "Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.",
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                        "text": "Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.",
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                        "text": "Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.",
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                        "text": "“You think too much and I bet it kills the magic,\" he says simply. \"Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.”",
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                        "text": "Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.",
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