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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. -- Colin Hay
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. -- Ban Ki-moon
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. -- Edward Snowden
When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem. -- Greg Louganis
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer. -- Thomas J. Watson
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest. -- Stephen Harper
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but around the world. -- Glenn Greenwald
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. -- James Howard Kunstler
Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it. -- Stephen Colbert
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful. -- John Muir
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. -- Betty Greene
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. -- Betty Greene
We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new. -- Mao Zedong

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