However, let us not be too sentimental. Let us be less luxurious but more magnificent. Said Laotse: "Heaven and earth are pitiless." Said Kobodaishi: "Flow, flow, flow, flow, the current of life is ever onward. Die, die, die, die, death comes to all." Destruction faces us wherever we turn. Destruction below and above, destruction behind and before. Change is the only Eternal,--why not as welcome Death as Life? They are but counterparts one of the other,--The Night and Day of Brahma. Through the disintegration of the old, re-creation becomes possible.英文原著 · 《The Book of Tea》
Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that its power of destruction is the very thing Anarchism is combating? Nor is he aware that Anarchism, whose roots, as it were, are part of nature's forces, destroys, not healthful tissue, but parasitic growths that feed on the life's essence of society. It is merely clearing the soil from weeds and sagebrush, that it may eventually bear healthy fruit.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
[April 22] Mr. Farquhar. -- In the perfection of what faculty does genius consist? Or if in a combination of faculties what are they? Superseded, because the subject of Mr. Gerard's discourses. What are the parts of the body so connected with the several faculties of the mind that the destruction of those parts brings on a destruction of the exercise of those faculties. Gregorie.英文原著 · 《The Scottish Philosophy》
Abye: First English - abicgan, pay for. Assoiled: absolved. Avowe: "I make avowe," I declare; not "I make a vow." Avow-e: advocate. Awayte: "awayte me scathe," watch for opportunity of doing hurt to me. Balis: evils. Banis: slayers. First English - bana, whence "bane," destruction or harm. Barker: tanner.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
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[468] -- This "general destruction" evidently refers to the conquest of Anegundi by Muhammad Taghlaq. [469] -- (See above, p. 8.) The date should be about 1330. Nuniz was here about a century wrong. [470] -- Delhi. [471] -- A common error with the foreigners. Properly speaking it was Cambaya which belonged to Gujarat. [472] -- Muhammad Taghlaq of Delhi.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
Many other advantages might be enumerated. For instance, the addition of some thousand carcasses in our exportation of barrel'd beef: the propagation of swine's flesh, and improvement in the art of making good bacon, so much wanted among us by the great destruction of pigs, too frequent at our tables; which are no way comparable in taste or magnificence to a well grown, fat yearly child, which roasted whole will make a considerable figure at a Lord Mayor's feast, or any other publick entertainment. But this, and many others, I omit, being studious of brevity.英文原著 · 《A Modest Proposal》
The kind of destruction you're considering, the collateral damage, the relationships that'll be ruined or pushed to the brink-- you ready for all that?美剧 · 《Billions》
The kind of destruction you're considering, the relationships that'll be ruined-- you ready for all that?美剧 · 《Billions》
When I look at the shambles my life has become-- from my firing, to my public disgrace, to my election with strings attached, to the destruction of my marriage, to my family falling into disrepair-- ah, did I make mistakes to cause it?美剧 · 《Billions》
T must return it to Cybertronics for destruction I had to sign a letter of agreement, or they wouldn't even let you see David电影 · 《Artificial Intelligence (2001)》