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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
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
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
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,… — Benjamin Franklin
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
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing… — Edward Gibbon
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec… — Horace Walpole
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world… — Buenaventura Durruti
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace… — John Zerzan
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end… — Benjamin Tucker
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
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. — Maurice Blanchot
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
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning… — Anselm Kiefer
Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece. — Richard Russo
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than… — Phil Cousineau

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