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"We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction." »Dennis Kucinich
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"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." »Pablo Picasso
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"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction." »Aesop
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"Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction." »Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
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"We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." »Aesop
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"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction." »Janet Reno, February 2, 1998
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"Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful." »Phaedrus
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"Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction." »Chinese
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"My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world." »Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
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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
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"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal." »William Lippmann
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"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle." »Henri-Frederic Amiel
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"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." »Abraham Lincoln
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"People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." »Aesop
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"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction." »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" »Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
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"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied." »Sophocles
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy" »Mahatma Gandhi
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"...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life." »G.H. Hardy
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"Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction." »Kabbalah
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"The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people." »Claiborne Pell
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"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." »Arthur Koestler
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"Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes." »Alexander Hamilton
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"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other." »Ayn Rand
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"There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics." »Richard Livingstone
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"The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.
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