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Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

~Elie Ducommun

Topics: Able Above Beast Been Destructive Entirely Frequent However Intellectual Man May Moral Never Raises Sense Wars Which

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I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

~Emily Giffin

Topics: Challenge Characters Choices Destructive Enjoy Find Flawed Interesting Making More Much Path Perfect Readers Root Spite Than Them

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Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.

~Emily V. Gordon

Topics: Again Being Destructive Divorce Emotionally Experiences Feel Go Hard Human Human Being Hurts Long Long Time Matter Most Normal Recipient Takes Through Time Traumatic You

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The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.

~Enda Kenny

Topics: Agendas Backwards Border Destructive Exploit Hard Ireland Island Malign Opportunity Others Present Purposes Step Would

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Acted Contains Destructive Envy Feeling Guise Hate Indignation Moral Much Out Perhaps Permits Phenomenon Virtue Which

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Destructive Errors Fatal Great Happiness Little Little Things Most People Repetition Ruined Slowly Things

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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

~Erwin Schrodinger

Topics: Animal Any Becomes Community Destructive Egoism Improve Kind Preserve Solitary Species Tends Vice Virtue

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We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: Come Corruption Destructive Fashion Holocaust Learned Means Our Out Power Predecessors Stock Systems Treat Vulnerable Which

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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

~Federica Montseny

Topics: Blind Confirmed Cruel Destructive Forces Grandiose Knew Namely Only Operate Revolution Something Theory Uncontrollable Uncontrolled Which

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There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

~Florence Welch

Topics: Bad Both Destructive Each Emotionally Emotions Extreme Feeling Imagery Kind Love Much Only Other Quite Really Relationship Think Those Where You I Think

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