"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad." — Sophocles

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• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov
• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning… — Isaac Asimov
• This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,… — Mikhail Bakunin
• Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams
• All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The… — Charles A. Beard
• All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
• To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time… — Ingrid Bergman
• Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget… — Aneurin Bevan
• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it… — William Blake

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