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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild… — Wallace Stegner
La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.) — Pablo Neruda
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in… — Jacques Lacan
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared… — Karl Popper
But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is… — John Steinbeck
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an… — Allen Ginsberg
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there… — Catherynne M. Valente
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in… — John Green
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape. — Sheri Reynolds
That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed,… — William Gaddis
Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man… — John Steinbeck
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen,… — Emily Bronte
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,… — Anais Nin
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded… — Albert Camus
The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness. — Ted Dekker
He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. — Tom Robbins
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a… — Alberto Manguel
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. — Joyce Carol Oates
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs.… — Agatha Christie
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction — Lois Lowry

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