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“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

Life Together Death Watches Destruction Collapse

Book:Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

Death Worst Destruction Ruins Decay Woe

Author:William Shakespeare

“Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.”

Self Death Effects Dying Self Esteem Highest Destruction Extremes Esteem Cowardice Self Destruction

Author:Daniel Defoe

“Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.”

Form Death Accepting Building Materials Aspect Destruction Building Up Aspects Of Life Prelude

Book:The Seven Principles of Man

Source: The Seven Principles of Man

“The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.”

Humans Government Death Process Liberty Power Destruction Increase Libertarian Limitation Concentration Libertarianism Resisting

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.”

Ifs Ideas Real Ends Matter Moments Form Law Death Simple Animal Existence Principles Dying Destruction Eternity Transformation Deny Cease Passages Being Real Annihilation Transmutation

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.”

“The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.”

Science Death Cities Progress Destruction Nuclear Massive Testament Monument Disarmament Hiroshima Nuclear Disarmament

Book:Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy

Source: Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy