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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Enemies
Aesop

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The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Destructiveness
Mikhail Bakunin

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Procreation
Walter Benjamin

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The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Bible

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Unhappiness
Dorothea Brande

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Action
Pablo Picasso

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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Destructiveness
Marquis De Sade

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Food and Eating
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Gossip
Sir Richard Steele

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Arts and Artists
Simone Weil

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Past
Simone Weil

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