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torn up

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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. Albert Einstein

Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. Anthony Eden

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. Richard Avedon

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. Friedrich Nietzsche

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor. Mark Helprin

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked. Channing Tatum

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