Eric Reeves Quotes
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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
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Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
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Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.
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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
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Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
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The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.
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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
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Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
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If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.
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The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.
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One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.
