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«We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.»
Author: Alfred Jarry
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Buildings, demolish, demolished, demolishes, demolishing, put up, ruins, succeeded
«We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.»
«We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins»
«So tonight you better stop and rebuild all your ruins, because peace and trust can win the day despite all your losing.»
«Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins»
«Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.»
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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«Politics ruins the character.»
«The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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enthusiast, enthusiasts, prudent, regenerate, regenerated, regenerates, regenerating, ruins
«The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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aristocracy, barbarism, chivalry, disgusting, forerunner, forerunners, odious, republicanism, ruins, scarcely
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