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She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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• High unemployment could provide the opportunity for people to live without "boring, self-destroying" work, according to the Reverend Nicholas Stacey, the director of social services for Kent.
From the archive, 2 February 1981: National service for jobless? 2012
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The novel, self-renewing, self-destroying, always the same, always new, always … novel … is the art of permanent chaos.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely's self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York this weekend with the Flux Factory.
Self-Destructing Art: Relive Jean Tinguely's Ephemeral Work Grace Green 2010
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely's self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York this weekend with the Flux Factory.
Self-Destructing Art: Relive Jean Tinguely's Ephemeral Work Grace Green 2010
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As well, your self-destroying hatred of MSFT is all too obvious.
Microsoft: Machiavellian or Muddled? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Sisyphus: It's one of Jean Tinguely's apparently many self-destroying machines, entitled "Homage to New York."
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2010
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely's self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York this weekend with the Flux Factory.
Self-Destructing Art: Relive Jean Tinguely's Ephemeral Work The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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They were big and empty of surfers and they heaved shoreward in relentless self-destroying ranks.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely's self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York this weekend with the Flux Factory.
Self-Destructing Art: Relive Jean Tinguely's Ephemeral Work Grace Green 2010
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