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ruins bourgeoisie commodity
Walter Benjamin In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
ruins easy knows
William Makepeace Thackeray If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
ruins mood lending
Joseph Addison A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
ruins irritated appetite
Emile M. Cioran Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
ruins should recalls
Emile M. Cioran Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.
ruins causes advancement
Niccolo Machiavelli He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
ruins constitution idleness
Ovid Idleness ruins the constitution
ruins financial naacp
Kweisi Mfume Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.
vices tendencies tempted
Rebecca West The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
vices sin slave
Saint Augustine The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
vices nine penalties
William Graham Sumner Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
vices wells employed
William Hazlitt The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
vices dishonesty murder
Laurence Sterne I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.
vices needs prudent
Niccolo Machiavelli A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.
vices sake
Cassandra Clare Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.
vices virtue calculations
Joseph Joubert Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
vices sincerity worst
Oscar Wilde The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
stranger
John Abraham I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.
strange-places cards credit
Renny Harlin Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.
strange accepted strangeness
Rose Macaulay Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
stranger
Truman Capote You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
strange-places goldfish giants
Rick Riordan Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.
stranger wanted own-business
Sara Blakely I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.
strange folly just-one
William Faulkner Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
stranger
Richard Rodriguez There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.
strange incredibles bootstraps
Upton Sinclair Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.