"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."
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"We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business."
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"The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm."
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"Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness."
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"The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements."
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"It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future."
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"We moralize among ruins."
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"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."
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"What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?"
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"The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion."
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"The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin."
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"Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game."
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"Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue."
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"Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred."
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"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."
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"The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other."
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"Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins."
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"Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable."
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"The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler."
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"The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary."
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