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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it. — Laozi
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it. — David Pogue
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. — Mario Puzo
Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. — Unknown Author
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide. — Friedrich List
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than… — Jane Austen
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life. — Timothy Keller
Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the… — Steven Holl
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and… — Otto Penzler
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for… — Antonya Nelson
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. — Ambrose Bierce
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather… — Leo Tolstoy
No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger. — Saint John Chrysostom
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and… — Saint Timothy
There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation… — Gouverneur Morris
Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day. — Lil B
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce… — Sigmund Freud
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war… — Morihei Ueshiba
Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us… — Sheri S. Tepper
It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and… — George Q. Cannon
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage… — Dorothy Dunnett
In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally,… — Albert Mohler
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin. — Barack Obama
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to… — Swami Vivekananda
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr

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