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Destruction Quotes
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
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"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement."
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
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"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
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"We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it."
53
"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."
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"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."
51
"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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"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
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"He who fears is literally delivered to destruction."
50
"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."
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"You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus."
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"I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction."
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
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"Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt."
46
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
45
"Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes."
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"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families."
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"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?"
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"Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished."
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"I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction."
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"Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands."
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"Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible."
43
"That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now."
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"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes."
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"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."
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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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"There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack."
40
"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
40
"I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view."
39
"We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction."
39
"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
39
"There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world."
37
"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation."
37
"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them."
37
"All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty."
36
"The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us."
36
"Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction."
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"The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."
34
"Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction."
34
"Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for whom vengeance had devolved into madness."
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"Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud."
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"China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations."
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"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction."
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"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."
33
"The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium."
32
"Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world. Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her."What do you mean end? asked Mikey."End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet ."
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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
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