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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as… — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by… — Michel de Montaigne
I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying… — Unknown Author
But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall… — George Washington
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them… — Jung Chang
You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint, — Rick Perry
We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them… — Thomas S. Monson
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we… — Howard Lyman
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo,… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. — Hart Crane
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed)… — Adam Hamilton
A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean — Thomas Jefferson
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one. — Mitch Daniels
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray,… — Vernon Howard
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything… — Thomas Sowell
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out… — John Owen
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins,… — Charles Spurgeon
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated… — Charles Spurgeon
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of… — Andreas Vesalius
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act. — Kenneth Rexroth

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