#destroys

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#destroys #destructive #limiting #only #our

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ↗

— John Fowles

#end #marriages #most #paradox #passion

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. ↗

— Milos Forman

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. ↗

— John Milton

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. ↗

— Chris Ware

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I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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