#destroyed

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#destroyed #make #once #others #poetry

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#carefully #century #dalton #destroyed #during

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#banks #built #destroyed #power #revolves

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#brute #destroyed #effectually #i #indolence

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conquered #destroyed #great #itself #until

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war. ↗

— Howard Finster

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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#could #demons #destroyed #fascinated #his

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#destroyed #garland #had #legend #life

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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