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People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. — Vaclav Havel
Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and soothed.… — Randall Wright
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental… — Stephen Covey
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. — Dave Barry
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance… — Paul Davies
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood… — Zygmunt Bauman
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed;… — Henry Thomas Buckle
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. — Norman Angell
For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the… — Thomas Malory
You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the… — Wumen Huikai
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to… — Adam Young
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In… — Steve Berry
I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast,… — Karen Kingsbury
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the… — Nick Clooney
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace. — Robert Cailliau
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it.… — Patrick Dempsey
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and… — William A. Dembski
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either -… — Robert Fisk
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one… — Blaise Pascal
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily… — James Howard Kunstler

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