#destruction

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#destruction #eat

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

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Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. ↗

— Adam Schiff

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. ↗

— Richard Steele

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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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