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There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
Preachers and Preaching
American Proverb

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
Experience
James Baldwin

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
Fear
James F. Bell

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He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]
Laziness
Bible

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]
Death and Dying
Bible

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Books - Reading
Ray Bradbury

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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Pearl S. Buck

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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
Sin
John Bunyan

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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Security
Winston Churchill

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Time and Time Management
Marcus T. Cicero

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
God
E. M. Cioran

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Talent
Cyril Connolly

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It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Marriage
Benjamin Disraeli

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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
Anxiety
John Dryden

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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
Order
William J. Durant

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New arts destroy the old.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Bigotry
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
Equality
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Insanity
Nathaniel Emmons

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Business
Marshall Field

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
Death and Dying
Edward M. Forster

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Insanity
Allen Ginsberg

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Thought would destroy their paradise.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas Gray

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Character
Colin Hay

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun