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"I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one." »Voltaire
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade." »Benjamin Franklin
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"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." »Samuel Johnson
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"Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink." »Gore Vidal
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"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security." »Edmund Burke
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"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things." »Ernest Dimnet
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"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great." »Johann Georg Zimmermann
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"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." »Clarence Darrow
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"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children." »Clarence Darrow
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." »Patrick Henry
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." »Patrick Henry
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"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
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"He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand." »Constance Naden
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"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines." »Benoit Mandelbrot
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"Don Corleone What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you." »Godfather, The
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"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision." »Penn Jillette
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"Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance." »Butler
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"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." »Clarence Darrow
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"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure." »Hermann Hesse
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"For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class." »Hans Konig
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