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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Author:
Johann Zimmermann
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Author:
Edward Young
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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
Author:
John Webster
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It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.
Author:
John Walters
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
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Virgil
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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Author:
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.
Author:
Holly Valance
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Author:
John Tillotson
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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
Author:
John Thorn
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Author:
Ali Talib
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Tacitus
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Author:
Stendhal
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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
Author:
George Smathers
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.
Author:
Pete Rozelle
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Author:
Leopold Ranke
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Author:
Ted Rall
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Author:
Georges Pompidou
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Success tempts many to their ruin.
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Phaedrus
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I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.
Author:
Riccardo Muti
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It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Author:
Ellen Muth
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When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
Author:
Gwen Moore
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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Author:
Scott McNealy
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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
Author:
Jeanette MacDonald
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I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.
Author:
Courtney Love
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Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
Author:
Edward Livingston
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Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Author:
Friedrich List
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
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Pope John XXIII
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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Author:
Samuel Hopkins
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
Author:
S. Hinton
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Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
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Hesiod
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
Author:
King George V
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Author:
Charles Gaulle
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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Muammar Gaddafi
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
Author:
Buenaventura Durruti
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
Author:
Rachel Dratch
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
Author:
Vincent D'Onofrio
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No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.
Author:
John Dillinger
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If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Author:
Mario Cuomo
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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Author:
Davy Crockett
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Author:
Charles Colton
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The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Author:
Hugo Claus
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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
Author:
Chris Christie
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This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.
Author:
Helena Christensen
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
Author:
Ralph Chaplin
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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Author:
Neville Chamberlain
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
Author:
Will Carleton
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Author:
Fanny Burney
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Author:
Charles Bukowski
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Author:
Warren Buffett
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Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.
Author:
Richard Bland
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The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Author:
Josh Billings
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Author:
Djuna Barnes
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Author:
Aesop
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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Author:
Aeschylus
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
Author:
John Adams
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Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'
Author:
Amy Adams
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Author:
Berenice Abbott
