Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Billy Corgan What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Erich Fromm What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.
    Source: New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bell Hooks What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alexander Pope What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, I the soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, I is virtue's prize.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Harriet Martineau What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Cab Calloway What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • C. Wright Mills What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Dryden What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
    Source: A Song for Cecilia's Day (1687)
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Barbara Corcoran What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard What people need and what they want may be very different.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Brit Hume What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • George Eliot What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What rapture, oh, it is to know
    A good thing when you see it
    And having seen a good thing, oh,
    What rapture 'tis to flee it.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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