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Letter "D" » destroyers
«I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction»
Author: John Steinbeck
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
bored,
cynicism,
destroyers,
listless,
named,
plenty,
rebellion,
self-satisfaction,
slothful,
submerged,
The Destroyers
«As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters»
«Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility»
«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Historian)
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Keywords:
arbitrary,
befallen,
befalls,
calamities,
deceivers,
destroyers,
foundering,
founders,
human origin,
noted,
origin,
tenths,
The Destroyers,
The Founders,
the union
«And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.»
«Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.»
«Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.»
«From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.»
Author: Anais Nin
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Author)
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Keywords:
charge,
co-worker,
co,
cos,
destroyers,
focus,
focus on,
in-law,
in charge,
meddled,
meddles,
meddling,
negativity,
react,
sister-in-law,
sister,
take control,
The Destroyers,
worker
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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President)
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About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Freedom
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Keywords:
civil,
civil liberties,
civil liberty,
civil rights,
cocktail,
cocktails,
constitutional,
constitutional right,
constitutional rights,
destroyers,
Klansman,
lawbreaker,
lawbreakers,
liberties,
Molotov,
Molotov cocktail,
rioter,
rioters,
The Destroyers