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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins. -- Bayard Taylor
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. -- Christopher Lasch
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i. -- Jack Schwartz
The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats. -- Pankaj Mishra
What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins. -- Friedrich Schiller
How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? -- John Fowles
Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble. -- Eleanor Farjeon
Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber. -- Dennis Miller
Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. -- John Muir
I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles. -- Thomas Browne
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms. -- Edvard Grieg
You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones. -- Griffin Jay
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. -- Buenaventura Durruti
The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly. -- Scott Westerfeld

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