Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • August Strindberg What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Edgar Quinet What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Anne Brontë What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • George Orwell What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Irv Kupcinet What can you say about a society that says that god is dead and Elvis is alive?
    Irv Kupcinet
     
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Norman Mailer What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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