#destruction

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

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Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me. ↗

— Anne Rice

#destruction #love #love

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#irony #salvation #self-destruction #salvation

We speak of love when we destroy nature. It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#destruction-of-nature #innocence #speak-of-love #love

You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them. ↗

— Deanna Raybourn

#love #love

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. ↗

— Richard Adams

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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

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If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. ↗

— Tommy Franks

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If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. ↗

— Tommy Franks

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