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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
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I thought RV stood for Recreational Vehicle. No! It stands for Ruins Vacations.
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If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
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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.
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Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
His Last Bow (1917) -
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
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