"destruction is ultimately self-destruction."
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"If you can't create, you destroy."
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"if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death."
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"The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all words that he used - which is not the case for any other president, including the current one - Barack Obama."
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"Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism."
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"Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear."
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"There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it."
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"New arts destroy the old."
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"Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect."
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"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"
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"We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over."
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"Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress."
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"I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity."
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"I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction."
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"Man does not live by destruction."
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"The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction"
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"You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right."
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"All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher."
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"We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss."
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"What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness."
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