Beauty is a kind of power of destruction.

美是一种毁灭的力量。

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In the last century, generations of Americans and Russians inherited the power to destroy nations, and the understanding that using that power would bring about our own destruction.

上一个世纪，美国和俄罗斯的几代人继承了可以毁灭其他国家的力量，同时也认识到使用这种力量也会造成自身的毁灭。

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It left 26 people dead, flattened forests and power lines and caused massive destruction of buildings and roads.

在它身后26人一命呜呼，森林夷为平地，供电线路倒伏，同时建筑物和道路遭到大面积破坏。

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"This man actually said in February 2003, Tony Blair addressed the house and said that Saddam can stay in power if he hands over his weapons of mass destruction,".

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Incidents such as the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, have provided deadly evidence of the power of nature to wreak destruction and throw human communities into chaos.

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Mr Ullman wrote that the use of air power to achieve "nearly incomprehensible levels of mass destruction" could achieve "an overwhelming level of shock and awe against an adversary on an immediate basis to paralyse its will to resist".

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And Ahmadinejad added fuel to his virulent anti-Israel stance, saying Monday that Israel will soon disappear off the map and that the satanic power of the United States faces destruction.

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