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“They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis”

Wanted Born Practice Saws Meditation Civilization Protect Destruction Ancient Preserves Mystical Meditation Practice Ancient Egypt Atlantis Knowledge Gained

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.”

“The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.”

Kind Politics Individual Saws Violence Behavior Destruction Excuse Activism Criminals Statements Handful No Excuses Baltimore Looting Criminal Behavior

Author:Barack Obama

“AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.”

Doe Saws Angel Advantage Destruction Entrepreneur Telephones Inventor Cellular

Author:Lester Thurow

“When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.”

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Author:Meredith Brooks

“I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.”

Knows Soul Cities Saws Air Laughter Destruction Response Seeking Relief Shelter God Knows Dresden

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.”

Ifs Law Saws Destruction Species Preservation

Author:Lev Shestov

“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.”

“All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”

Years Firsts Running Lasts Sun Saws Kings Tomorrow Honor Glory Draws Destruction Wit Yesterday Decay Our Love Everlasting Elders Elderly Making Time Hash

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.”

Children Today Earth Heaven Saws Destruction Courageous Bless Sheep Pastor

Author:Pope Francis

“So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.”

Men World Seems Earth Beautiful Sun Saws Sky Painting Destruction Blue Bones Finished Holes

Book:An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe