#destroyed

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #bird #call #destroyed #gone

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium. ↗

— John Dyer

#digital #magic #media #medium #much

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#american #attackers #buildings #cause #collapse

I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#big #books #destroyed #fan #harry

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#black #black hole #blunder #destroyed #hole

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. ↗

— Hesiod

#both #destroyed #faith #men #want

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game. ↗

— Richie Allen

#being #better #business #destroyed #four