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"I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure."	Marquis de Sade
"Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy."	Marguerite de Valois
"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'"	Danielle Donoho
"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."	Millicent Hammond Fenwick
"People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."	Stephen Jay Gould
"Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes."	Alexander Hamilton
"If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye."	Hammurabi
"I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.' Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."	William Henry Harrison
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."	Herman Hesse
"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."	Vernon Howard
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Danielle Donoho	Edward Keating	Erich Fromm
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Fritjof Capra	George Gordon Byron
Hammurabi	Herman Hesse	Isaac Asimov
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jawaharial Nehru	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Kenneth Galbraith	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Kabbalah	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcius Porcius Cato
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Marguerite de Valois
Marquis de Sade	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Millicent Hammond Fenwick
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Ray Douglas Bradbury	Reinhold Niebuhr
Richard Adams	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Stephen Jay Gould	Stephen R. Covey	Vernon Howard
William Blake	William Adams	William Henry Harrison
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