Destroyed Quotes
1168 quotes by 921 authors
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who…
— Isaac Asimov
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all…
— Roger Babson
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and…
— Ben Bernanke
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
— Theodor Adorno
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
— William Blake
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the…
— James Cameron
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What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through…
— Eric Cantona
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My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in…
— Al Capp
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads…
— Benjamin Carson
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
— Hugo Chavez
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
— Lord Chesterfield
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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
— Emile M. Cioran
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
— Stephen Ambrose
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong…
— Adam Ant
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I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no…
— Tupac Shakur
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I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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