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Natural disasters may destroy great cities, but they do not destroy civil rights.


Alan Gottlieb

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SARAH REES BRENNAN I'd probably crap my pants.
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WALTER LIPPMANN BUILD but don't DESTROY, if you want to DESTROY, DESTROY what you BUILT.
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C.S. LEWIS We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
CICERO The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...
RICHARD DAWKINS An ant may well destroy a whole dam.
CHINESE PROVERBS It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
JANET FITCH We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL He who is able to BUILD is able to DESTROY, but the problem is that some or many but not all DESTROY...
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COLLEEN HANABUSA Almighty Father, do not destroy mankind. Save us from every calamity.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.
LINDSEY GRAHAM How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful ...
PAUL BIGELOW SEARS In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'rig...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
GEORGE SANTAYANA May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
MICHAEL SERVETUS The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.
ST. AMBROSE Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
JOHN TYLER Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
PHILIP K. DICK They simply destroy us out here.
MARSHALL GOSS If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy so...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nati...
JOHN KRAMER Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but ...
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TREVON CLARK Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!
STEPHEN RICHARDS Life... Dreams... Hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go...? Such meaningless things....
KEFKA - FINAL FANTASY 6 It just seems to me we do not want to destroy the businesses and farms.
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BLISS CARMAN Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-...
BLISS CARMAN There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be allevia...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE MOORE Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/
MUHAMMED BHIKHA What fire does not destroy, it hardens
OSCAR WILDE We are here to create, not destroy.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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LAWRENCE KUDLOW I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody ...
ALAN AUTRY It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denize...
VIKAS SWARUP And it is binding on a town which We destroy that they shall not return.
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DAN STEIN You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
EDWARD KEATING I am Become Text Message. Destroyer Of Words.
DEAN CAVANAGH Nothing can be created in a second,but everything can be destroyed in a second.
KOWSALAPATHY There is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry.
ALAIN DE BOTTON You destroy bohemia.
DAVID HOCKNEY Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
ANON. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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MARLEINE BASTIEN Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE A. MOORE Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
JOHN MILTON What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of ...
BLISS CARMAN I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to...
HILLARY WEN, HILDY WEN Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then...
RICHARD NIXON Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them—and th...
RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
FEDERICA MOGHERINI Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, ...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
, SPEECH AT HARPERS FERRY, VIRGINIA, AUGUST 1906 Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
FRANK HERBERT Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
THOMAS S. MONSON It will destroy their businesses. It's not economically feasible.
HARRY LEE We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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JACK CADE The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Unless we make efforts to destroy are miseries we can not become wealthy and prosperous.
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ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY