"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."
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"There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character."
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"Pride goes before destruction."
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"Love is more afraid of change than destruction."
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"Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction."
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"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
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"The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit."
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"There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
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"I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation."
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"Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
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"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68"
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"I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living."
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"Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction."
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"Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction."
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"Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination."
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"The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation."
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"Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life."
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"We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life."
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"My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!"
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"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing."
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