"We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved."
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"Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz."
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"How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another."
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"Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul."
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"Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving."
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"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
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"[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories."
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"Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?"
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"Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal."
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"Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men."
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"The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding"
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"Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts."
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"Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause."
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"I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants."
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"I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations."
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"Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it."
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"I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin."
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"Idleness ruins the constitution"
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"This victory will be your I ruin."
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"There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination."
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