Quotes 21 till 37 of 37.
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
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Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
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Where dost thou careless lie,
Buried in ease and sloth?
Knowledge that sleeps, doth die;
And this security,
It is the common moth,
That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6. -
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
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With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
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