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“The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.”

Needs Care Lying Destruction Constant Definitions Seeds Chosen Inevitable Bigotry

Author:Toni Morrison

“If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.”

Ifs Doe Mistake Fields Destruction Inevitable Abandon Farmers

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .”

Ifs Thinking Feels May Eye Fall House Waiting Destruction Longing Instance Inevitable

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

Ifs Knows Mean Enough Bigs Found Realizing Lovers Destruction Inevitable

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.”

“If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.”

“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.”

Ifs Knows Mean Country Reason Choices Land Terrible Despair Destruction Our Country Inevitable Destroying Terrible Things

Book:The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

“Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance.”

Looks Remember Turns Sin Deals Path Cost Degrees Direct Destruction Temptation Inevitable Faithful Temples Covenant Accommodate Being Faithful Attendance

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.”

Source: The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

“It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.”

Stills States Young Causes Enemy Worry Support Struggle Wind Destruction Ultimate Rounds Disappear Forests Inevitable Indian Opponents Crush Hinduism Petty Folds Vigorous

Author:Max Arthur Macauliffe

“No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.”

Thinking Should Believe States United United States Weapons Mass Destruction Don't Believe Inevitable Als Bin Laden Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Al Qaeda Inevitability Osama Bin Laden

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable”

Destruction South Inevitable Bronx

Author:Majora Carter