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"When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?"
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"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."
"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."
"Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction."
"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
"What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?"
"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."
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"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."
"I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it."
"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man."
"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."
"When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?"
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