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> [Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-liddell/circumstances-may-appear-to-wreck-our-lives-and-god-s-plans-but-god-2/)

[Eric Liddell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-liddell/)

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> [But the rest of Jace’s mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassandra-clare/but-the-rest-of-jace-s-mind-is-watching-the-door-slam-behind-her-and/)

[Cassandra Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassandra-clare/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aeschylus/but-who-can-describe-the-overweening-pride-of-men-or-women-mad-with/)

[Aeschylus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aeschylus/)

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> [Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/any-man-who-tries-to-be-good-all-the-time-is-bound-to-come-to-ruin-2/)

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

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> [Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/santiago-calatrava/think-about-what-happens-when-architecture-becomes-ruins-all-you-have/)

[Santiago Calatrava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/santiago-calatrava/)

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> [If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/if-men-who-in-their-hearts-are-friends-to-a-government-forbear-giving/)

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

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> [Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/ours-is-essentially-a-tragic-age-so-we-refuse-to-take-it-tragically-2/)

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

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> [Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-fenelon/nothing-is-more-false-and-more-indiscreet-than-always-to-want-to/)

[Francois Fenelon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-fenelon/)

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> [When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibn-khaldun/when-incentive-to-acquire-and-obtain-property-is-gone-people-no/)

[Ibn Khaldun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibn-khaldun/)

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> [And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/and-could-i-look-upon-her-without-compassion-seeing-her-punishment-in/)

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

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> [We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-s-monson/we-forget-how-the-greeks-and-romans-prevailed-magnificently-in-a/)

[Thomas S. Monson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-s-monson/)

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> [The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-white-face-of-the-winter-day-came-sluggishly-on-veiled-in-a/)

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

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> [A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/a-nation-that-fails-to-plan-intelligently-for-the-development-and/)

[Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/)

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> [There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-horton/there-are-versions-of-the-pro-gay-and-anti-gay-agenda-that-assume-a/)

[Michael Horton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-horton/)

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> [State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/state-authority-can-never-be-an-end-in-itself-for-if-that-were-so-any/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [But please, when you see an opportunity…” He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/veronica-roth/but-please-when-you-see-an-opportunity-he-presses-his-hand-to-my/)

[Veronica Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/veronica-roth/)

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> [In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmar-gabriel/in-germany-it-is-good-if-as-many-people-as-possible-join-initiatives/)

[Sigmar Gabriel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmar-gabriel/)

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> [I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ann-shaffer/i-am-in-a-constant-state-of-surprise-these-days-actually-now-that-i/)

[Mary Ann Shaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ann-shaffer/)

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> [Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-flaubert/are-the-days-of-winter-sunshine-just-as-sad-for-you-too-when-it-is/)

[Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-flaubert/)

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> [Eventually, while researching, you'll learn something you didn't want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-weir/eventually-while-researching-you-ll-learn-something-you-didn-t-want/)

[Andy Weir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-weir/)

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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/)

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

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> [This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-odlum/this-is-the-great-truth-life-has-to-teach-us-that-gratification-of/)

[Hortense Odlum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-odlum/)

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> [For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-such-will-be-our-ruin-if-you-in-the-immensity-of-your-public/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-maurois/it-is-often-said-that-in-prosperity-we-have-many-friends-but-that-we/)

[Andre Maurois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-maurois/)

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> [If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-anthony-froude/if-you-think-you-can-temper-yourself-into-manliness-by-sitting-here/)

[James Anthony Froude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-anthony-froude/)

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> [ The federal \[bank deposit\] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-federal-bank-deposit-insurance-scheme-has-worked-up-to-now-simply/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-murray/i-d-like-to-say-that-i-am-romantic-person-but-i-don-t-think-i-am-when/)

[Andy Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-murray/)

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> [The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/confucius/the-superior-man-when-resting-in-safety-does-not-forget-that-danger-2/)

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

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> [Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-herman/most-people-are-just-fat-and-because-most-bodybuilders-juice-they-can/)

[Scott Herman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-herman/)

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> [Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-j-clinton/our-generation-like-the-one-before-us-must-choose-without-the-threat/)

[William J. Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-j-clinton/)

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> [Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-foer/brazil-is-strewn-with-ruins-of-projects-refineries-power-plants-begun/)

[Franklin Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-foer/)

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> [How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/how-strange-and-foolish-is-man-he-looses-his-health-in-gaining-wealth/)

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

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> [Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-wolfe/imagine-a-man-who-stands-before-a-mirror-a-stone-strikes-it-and-it/)

[Gene Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-wolfe/)

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> [Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/love-is-like-a-tree-it-grows-by-itself-roots-itself-deeply-in-our/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-lukashenko/my-position-and-the-state-will-never-allow-me-to-become-a-dictator/)

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

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> [ Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from \[others'\] to include the possibility… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/anarchism-does-not-repudiate-the-right-of-ownership-but-it-has-a/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

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> [Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burns/even-thou-who-mournst-the-daisy-s-fate-that-fate-is-thine-no-distant/)

[Robert Burns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burns/)

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> [“Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eldridge-cleaver/ah-what-sights-and-sounds-and-pain-lie-beneath-that-mist-and-we-had/)

[Eldridge Cleaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eldridge-cleaver/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/the-apartments-of-the-rich-are-cabinets-of-curiosities-a/)

[Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/)

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> [Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-d-eisenhower/among-these-treasures-of-our-land-is-water-fast-becoming-our-most/)

[Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-d-eisenhower/)

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                        "text": "And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?",
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                        "text": "Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.",
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                        "text": "This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.",
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                        "text": "Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring calories. It's a horrible misconception and often sends people down a path of fat gain that might ruin their motivation and drive. Fat cells never go away once created.",
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                        "text": "Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.",
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