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"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."	Richard Adams
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."	William Adams
"The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."	Joseph Addison
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."	Aesop
"We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."	Aesop
"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction."	Aesop
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."	Isaac Asimov
"Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it."	Claire Huchet Bishop
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."	William Blake
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."	Ray Douglas Bradbury
"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."	Buddha
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."	George Gordon Byron
"In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity."	Fritjof Capra
"Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)"	Marcius Porcius Cato
"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day."	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?"	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first call 'promising'."	Cyril Connolley
"Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect."	Stephen R. Covey
"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."	(John) Michael Crichton
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Abraham Lincoln	Aesop	Alexander Hamilton
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Arthur Koestler	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Buddha	Claire Huchet Bishop	Cyril Connolley
Danielle Donoho	Edward Keating	Erich Fromm
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Fritjof Capra	George Gordon Byron
Hammurabi	Herman Hesse	Isaac Asimov
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jawaharial Nehru	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Kenneth Galbraith	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Kabbalah	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcius Porcius Cato
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Marguerite de Valois
Marquis de Sade	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Millicent Hammond Fenwick
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Ray Douglas Bradbury	Reinhold Niebuhr
Richard Adams	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Stephen Jay Gould	Stephen R. Covey	Vernon Howard
William Blake	William Adams	William Henry Harrison
(John) Michael Crichton