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"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes."
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"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."
"You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue."
"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."
"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
"There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying."
"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families."
"We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it."
"As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast."
"I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view."
"We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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