#destroyed

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. ↗

— Al Capp

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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. ↗

— Maimonides

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ↗

— John Muir

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The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#bitter end #destroyed #economy #end #fun

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. ↗

— William Blake

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When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. ↗

— Curt Flood

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