#roy

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. ↗

— Renata Adler

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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amiable #being #day #destroys #every

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#destroy #greatest #greatest privilege #her #house

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#defeated #destroyed #made #man

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. ↗

— John Agar

#archaeologists #deceased #publicity #royalty #underpaid

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ↗

— Pericles

#cut #destroyed #easy #get #grow

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. ↗

— Robert Ballard

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A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. ↗

— Joel Barlow

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