"The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism."
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"Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture."
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"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
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"In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin."
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"Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation."
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"Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile."
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"But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you."
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"The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
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"Success has ruin'd many a man."
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"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter."
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"Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself."
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"All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage."
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"Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can."
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"The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves."
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"Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time."
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"You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!"
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"A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn."
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"Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose."
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"And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater"
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"What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion."
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