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There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

~Gavin Degraw

Topics: Always Amount Burning Course Destruction Gradual Over Partying Slow Some

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Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Bit Both City Could Destruction Development Feeling Grown Lead My Own Organ Own Slums Some Special Thought Tumor Ultimately Unhealthy Ways

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Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

~George Ayittey

Topics: Cases Cause Caused Collapsed Corruption Destruction Devastated Dictators Economies Grand Horrendous Human Leaving Naked Plunder Problems States Theft Trails Treasury Wake Wanton World Worst

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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

~George Grey

Topics: Advancing Been Brazil Country Curious Destruction Evil Exist Existing Government Gradually Great Inevitable Long Must Now Offered Part Spectacle State Suffered Surely Which

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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

~George Grosz

Topics: About Anything Atmosphere Destruction Felt Great Grown Had Horror Humanist Knew Many Me Never People Same Senseless Up War Way Wise Wise People

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

~George Haven Putnam

Topics: Accusation Against Destruction Dungeons Duty False Frightened Government Let Us Neither Nor Our Ourselves Us

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But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

~George Jackson

Topics: Army Been Conditions Destruction Knowledge Liberation Living Now Sure Transformed

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

~George Orwell

Topics: Act Destruction Essential Human Labor Lives Necessarily Products War

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The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

~George Papandreou

Topics: After Came Capabilities Destruction Doing Europe Future Help Important Marshall Marshall Plan Now Obviously Our Own Plan Sense Think Very I Think

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I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

~George Voinovich

Topics: Allowed Bullies Children Destruction Everyday Fear Future Grandchildren Live Mass Mass Destruction Message Need Our Regional Send Some Threaten Want Weapons Where Will World Would-Be You

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