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With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.
Graham Greene
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Writer
Hate
Nests
Ruins
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
Russell Baker
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Writer
Assured
Authority
Newspapers
Ruins
Authorities
Blues
Numbered
Press
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Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.
Dorothy Wordsworth
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Author
Light
Ruins
Tree
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
Will Durant
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Writer
History
Civilization
Ruins
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It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.
Edmund Burke
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Statesman
Rivals
Ruins
Wicked
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist
Dream
God
Men
Awake
Awake At Night
Immortal
Innocent
Ruins
Life Dreams God
Man
Gently
Longer
Pass
Shall
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski
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Poet
Anarchy
Depends
Our Lives
Ready
Ripe
Ruins
Taken
Always Will Something
Finds
Ruin
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If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
Thomas A Kempis
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Canon
Jesus
Finding Yourself
Ruins
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In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
Walter Benjamin
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Literary Critic
Bourgeoisie
Commodity
Ruins
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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Writer
People
Ruins
World
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It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Juvenal
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Poet
Fame
Pillars
Ruins
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There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Author
Merit
Ruins
Stupid
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Garrett Hardin
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Ecologist
Best
Freedom
Men
Society
Believe
Destination
Interest
Ruins
Freedom Men Society
Own
Believes
Commons
Each
His
Pursuing
Ruin
Rush
Toward
Which
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It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.
Jo Coudert
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Author
Burning
Cooking
Ruins
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Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.
Buenaventura Durruti
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Art
Book
Ruins
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
Lucretius
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Poet
Pits
Ruins
Way
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He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Writer
Men
Kind
Ruins
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
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Actor
Friendship
Animation
Decay
Fake Friends
Fake People
Ivy
New Life
Ruins
True Friendship
Wall
True
Embraces
False
Gives
Object
Supports
Walls
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
Washed Out
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Personal Life
Ruins
Too Much
Life Music Feel
Personal Thing
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A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Joseph Addison
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Essayist
Mood
Ruins
Tense
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The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
Adam Smith
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Philosopher
Country
Rich
Ruins
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Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
Martha Beck
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Author
Conspiracy
Ruins
Weary
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A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.
Bobby Berk
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Lighting
Mood
Painting
Ruins
Totally
Picking
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
Angela Carter
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Novelist
Dad
Aeneas
Father
Ruins
Aged
Dad Father Never
Back
Carried
Perhaps
Troy
Whether
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The dealer for a nickelLord, will sell you lots of sweet dreamsAh, but the pusher ruin your bodyLord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream.
Hoyt Axton
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Singer-Songwriter
Mind
Ruins
Sweet
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Berenice Abbott
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Photographer
Inspirational
Teacher
Evolve
Pale
Ruins
Your Know Own
Teachers
Copy
Ruin
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The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
William Mackergo Taylor
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Biographer
Empires
Ruins
Track
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This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.
Helena Christensen
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Fashion Model
Film
Ruins
Want
Basis
Collaborate
Comfortably
Ruin
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Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.
Ntozake Shange
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Playwright
Caught
Dialect
Ruins
Slang
Work Technology Me
Standard
Tangle
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
Norm Macdonald
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Comedian
Adversity
Desire
Ruins
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
Baron De Montesquieu
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Author
Machines
Passion
Ruins
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How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
Veronica Roth
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Novelist
Decision
Ruins
Simple
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I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.
Lisa Kleypas
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Author
Age
Breakfast
Ruins
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Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
Augusten Burroughs
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Writer
Hatred
Long
Ruins
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When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
Lytton Strachey
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Writer
Civilization
Language
Ruins
French
Gradually
Slowly
Roman
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
Alexander Pushkin
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Author
Our Love
Ruins
Toil
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
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Writer
Forgiveness
Littles
Ruins
Want
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He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.
Francis Quarles
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Poet
Desire
Ruins
Tongue
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Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.
Meg Cabot
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Author
Art
Book
Lit
Ruins
Writing
Classes
Dissect
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
Oscar Wilde
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Writer
Ruins
Strange
Vices
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Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.
J.r. Ward
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Novelist
Falling In Love
Painful
Ruins
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Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.
Anne Hutchinson
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Gods Will
Ruins
States
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The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.
Hank Stuever
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Journalist
Ruins
United States
Way
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I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.
Molly Bloom
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Lessons
Ruins
Valuable
Life My Life Way
Hugely
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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
Caroline Leavitt
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Novelist
Giving Up
Humankind
Ruins
Love Best Hope
Connection
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
Samuel Johnson
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Writer
Ivy
Ruins
Wife
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I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.
Peter Kropotkin
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Zoologist
Mean
Political
Ruins
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Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
George Washington
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1St U.s. President
Doors
Paper
Ruins
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Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.
James Joyce
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Novelist
Pride
Ruins
Sin
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Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.
John Gourley
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Enjoy
Ruins
Wealthy
Messes
Price
Putting
Second
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