Destruction quotes
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"If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen."
"Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction."
"All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay."
"More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it."
"The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction."
