No nation, rich or poor, is exempt from nature's destructive potential. But nature is not the real problem.

无论是穷国还是富过都不能逃出自然潜在的破坏。

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The second choice is not to give in but to have the emotion eat us up inside and perhaps inspire us to destructive actions.

其次是不屈服，从而让内在情绪吞噬我们，且也许会激发我们做出毁灭性的行为。

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The amazing part of Shonnetta's journey is that not only was she able to break a destructive cycle of poverty, but that she helped others how to do the same with an open and untarnished heart.

夏洛特经历中让人惊奇的不仅是她打破了平穷的破坏性循环，更重要的是她用坦诚和纯洁的心教会别人如何可以做到这样。

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The question is whether we might over time get the banks and bankers the economy needs - sounder, providing credit where it is really needed - if those banks and bankers were treated not as self-destructive infants but as teenagers trying more often than not to do the right thing.

BBC: If banks are treated as naughty kids...

His program of a new architectural outline for San Francisco, one that would not resist earthquakes but use their destructive energy to create new kinds of structures, sounds marvelous.

WSJ: A Man Outside His Time | Lebbeus Woods | SFMOMA | By Richard B. Woodward

But perhaps, and hopefully, not as destructive.

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