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We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
Thomas S. Monson

Dreams, Passions

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
James Bovard

Fear, Long, Enough

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
Wendell Mayes

Win, Through, Run

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
John Podhoretz

Him, Himself, Obama

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
Vernon Howard

Thinking, Through, Before

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing

Truth, Person, Picture

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Robert Anton Wilson

Once, Longer, Repeat

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.
Kesha

Men, Hobby, Praying

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Norman Mailer

Life, Men, American

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond

Peace, Silence, Words

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Health, Country, Soon

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
Mark Levin

Government, Society, Reason

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie

Power, Solitude, Writer

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson

Nature, Human, Culture

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
Arthur Erickson

Process, City, Build

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
Joe Slovo

Done, Racism, Matter

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
Benjamin Carson

Future, Nation, Ourselves

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess

Young, Energy, Violence

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
James Woods

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas a Kempis

Faith, Follow, Precede

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.
Josh McDowell

Everything, Kids, Youth

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Ken Kesey

History, Else, Stands

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
Daisaku Ikeda

Hope, Courage, Heart

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'
V. S. Naipaul

History, Past, Matter

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
Mwai Kibaki

Country, Violence, Unity

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
Natalie Portman

Kids, Off, Child

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Wole Soyinka

Mind, Human, Writing

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
Paula Deen

Hope, Feeling, Done

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