Will Durant Quotes
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Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
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Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.
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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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If the Arabs are strong enough, they would destroy the whole world,therefore, we should annihilate them.
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Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.
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Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
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There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.
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In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
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I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
