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Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Life
Lose
Everything
Destroying
All Things
Effectiveness
Die
Function
Season
Eventually
Things
Necessary
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Life
Natural
People
First
Past
Holding
Programs
Air
Strikes
Destroying
Response
Life Span
Onto
Employ
Massive
However
End
Span
Natural Life
Much
Cycle
Organizational
Harm
A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
Mark Walport
Definition
Destroying
Only
Computer
Supply
Because
Off
Account
Accountable
Short
Hold
Anything
Cannot
Turning
Held
Electricity
Mechanism
Hardware
Humans
Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.
Michael Ignatieff
Power
Control
Air
Destroying
Ability
Rarely
Relying
Like
Forces
Limits
Command
Effective
Itself
Targets
Fixed
Storage
Regime
Against
Succeeds
Planes
Then
Strategic
Bridges
Even
Petroleum
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.
Michael Smith
Year
Other
Destroyed
Destroying
Per
About
Rate
Over
Majority
Years
Exist
Years Ago
North
North America
America
Just
Planet
Sapiens
Large
Now
Species
Homo
Homo Sapiens
We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.
Michael Steele
Life
Research
Saving
Destroy
Destroying
Embryo
About
Through
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Support
Does
Lot
Cell
Cell Research
Human
Gain
Breakthroughs
Should
Human Life
Therefore
Medical
Fundamentally
The white man is destroying the world.
Muhammad Ali
Man
World
White
Destroying
It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
Nadia Comaneci
Me
Mother
Back
Furniture
Destroying
Classes
Gymnastics
Couch
Involved
Got
Doing
Sending
Six
Just
Stop
Who
Flips
There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
Naomi Klein
Future
Government
Better
Job
Free
Market
Our
Way
Destroying
Preventing
Free Market
Better Job
Industry
Yes
Replacement
Getting
Them
Fuel
Planet
Livable
Fossil
Fossil Fuel
Actively
Things
Chances
People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
Norman Finkelstein
People
Country
Destroying
Foreign
Who
Right
Defend
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland
Business
Soul
Human Being
Destroying
TV
Talent
Crushing
Human
Being
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.
Paul Hawken
Business
World
Way
Say
Destroying
Polite
Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
Paul Watson
Myself
Conservative
Radical
Conservatives
Conserve
Destroying
More
Never
Look
Am
Real
Trying
Mean
Planet
Really
Radicals
Activist
Actually
Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.
Penn Jillette
Day
Every Day
Internet
Every
Trees
Earth
Melting
Destroying
TV
Something
Bears
Rivers
Polar
Drowning
Message
Doing
Dying
Ice
Newspapers
Us
Caps
Interestingly, I was in D.C. in 2000, when George Bush was inaugurated. With our baby in her stroller, my husband and I were confronted with hundreds of angry protesters hell-bent on destroying what should have been a bi-partisan celebration of the 'peaceful transition of power'.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Angry
Husband
Power
Baby
Our
Hundreds
Destroying
George
Were
George Bush
Been
Celebration
Transition
Bush
Confronted
Inaugurated
Interestingly
Should
Peaceful
Her
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Randy Newman
Genius
Down
Earth
Bit
Destroying
Classic
Written
Taking
True
Idea
Like
True Genius
Than
Essentially
Lower
Down To Earth
Even
Bringing
The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.
Richard Engel
Government
You
Matter
Country
Destroying
Responsible
Spin
Invaded
Invading
Recover
Wrong
Know
How
Odious
Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.
Rita Moreno
Life
Myself
You
My Life
Seen
Sense
Every
Destroying
Maiden
Had
House
Because
Been
Being
Movies
Ethnic
Your
Ever
Play
Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up.
Rob Portman
Health
You
Doctor
Down
Destroying
Jobs
About
Rather
Costs
Driving
Instead
Between
Insurance
Limiting
Up
Expand
Than
Bureaucrat
Decisions
Them
Create
Choice
Should
Your
Company
Bring
We, as the Marley family, won't be responsible for destroying the community.
Rohan Marley
Family
Community
Marley
Destroying
Responsible
There's nothing wrong with being an innovator, but how do you innovate? Are you just destroying the place, or are you protecting the place?
Rohan Marley
You
Nothing
Innovate
Innovator
Destroying
Wrong
Protecting
How
Just
Being
Place
I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.
Rose Schneiderman
Business
Made
Girl
Down
Others
Our
Months
Machines
Destroying
About
Factory
Had
Well
Learned
Doing
Very
Quite
Burned
Them
Then
Much
Paid
Hard
Who
Two
Consequently
Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.
Selman Waksman
Property
Group
Other
Possess
Destroying
Compounds
Known
Antibiotics
Which
Produced
Even
Growth
Belongs
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act prudently. And even if we don't, these problems are incapable of obliterating all of humanity, let alone destroying the Earth. No, the real End of Days will happen slowly, as the Sun ages.
Seth Shostak
Today
War
Alone
Change
Humanity
Problems
Will
Resource
Earth
Sun
Destroying
Threats
Slowly
Days
Massive
Climate
Climate Change
Real
End
Amenable
Fix
Happen
Ages
Incapable
Act
Even
Including
Population
Population Growth
Growth
When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
Shinya Yamanaka
Thought
Research
Our
Saw
Way
Destroying
Must
Embryo
Embryos
Small
Daughters
Between
Another
Another Way
Difference
Realized
Suddenly
Keep
When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would become a rapper. I was born in a very traditional and religious family. Being a female was destroying my dreams. Slowly, first through poetry and then music, I began to find ways to share my thoughts and feelings, talk to my family and to the world.
Sonita Alizadeh
Music
Dreams
Day
Family
Thoughts
World
Rapper
Girl
First
Feelings
Become
Think
Ways
One Day
Destroying
Would
Find
Religious
Born
Slowly
Poetry
Through
Share
Talk
Female
Traditional
Began
Very
Did
Listen
Being
Little
Little Girl
Then
Much
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