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«There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.»
Author: Dorothea Brande
(Editor, Writer)
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allowed, All of Us, destruction, Seeds, self-destruction, unhappiness
«Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.»
Author: Marilyn French
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, delusion, Greeks, lucid, self-destruction, taking over
«The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.»
Author: Norman O. Brown
| Keywords:
construction, continuous, human body, self-destruction, static, structure, substance, the human body
«Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction»
Author: Suzanne LaFollette
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by laws, code, grotesquely, infanticide, irregular, Moral code, prostitution, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, self-destruction, sexual act, Sexual acts
«Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.»
«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»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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afflicted, built in, conclusion, disorder, drives, mental disorder, mess, self-destruction, The Conclusion
«We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.»
«Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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done for, dreamed, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, in truth, neglects, preservation, principalities, principality, republics, self-destruction, self preservation
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