Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • Thomas Alva Edison Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Bell Hooks Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
    Source: Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Helen Keller Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Joan Borysenko Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Simone Weil The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Andre Breton The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Denis Diderot The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The are and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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