Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • Baruch Spinoza It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Charlotte Brontë It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • George Santayana It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Wolfe It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Anne Tyler It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Billie Jean King It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Barry Sternlicht It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo It is well enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what?... The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Lord Henry P. Brougham It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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  • Arnold Bennett It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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