Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
    Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • William Shakespeare A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Berger A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Benazir Bhutto A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Andrew Goodman A people must have dignity and identity.
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Edmund Burke A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bob Dylan A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ian McEwan A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
    Source: Atonement (2001)
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Cam Newton A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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