Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons."
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Scarlett Johansson
Actress
"I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know."
Sun Myung Moon
Religious Leader
"If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself."
Aesop
Fabulist
"Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself."
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"Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own."
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"You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for."
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"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man."
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"Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion."
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"Success has ruined many a man."
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"The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing."
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"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
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"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."
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""Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations."
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"God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread."
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"Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths."
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"No nation has ever been ruined by trade."
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"It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever."
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"Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes."
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"Pride ruined the angels."
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"I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand."
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"To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour"
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"It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place."
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"No girl was ever ruined by a book."
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"I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined."
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