"When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along."
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"Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships."
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"Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in."
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"It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular."
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"There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction."
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"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."
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"Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction."
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"B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction."
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"What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?"
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"Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction of the state of Israel and that you're involved in some actual or potential violent attack. But actually, you could say: "Not on this basis"."
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"A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction"
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"If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker."
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"The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends."
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"All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to."
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"As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction"
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"By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction."
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"[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it."
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"I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction."
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"These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know."
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"Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life."
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