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• Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

  Barack Obama

  Isil, Counter Terrorism

  Barack Obama (2017). “Il futuro è il posto migliore: Il 44° Presidente degli Stati Uniti d’America in parole sue”, Rizzoli

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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

  C.P. Snow

  Aggravation, People, Advertising

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• There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.

  Bill McKibben

  Past, New Orleans, People

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Character, Dwelling Place, Civilization

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• Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Reform, Civility

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4249, Library of Alexandria

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• It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Decision, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sadness

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• ... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

  Phyllis Bottome

  Support, Pet

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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• I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

  Emily Bronte

  I Love Him, Men, Fire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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• The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

  William S. Burroughs

  Junk, Doe, Clients

  The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2, (p. 1), January 1957.

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• I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Knowing, Giving, Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

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• When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

  Gene Wolfe

  Pain, Rain, Justice

  Gene Wolfe (2011). “The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits and giggles? Or was this nothing more than a fraternity prank? Please tell me that you didn’t just ruin my integrity to get some kind of drinking points. This is something I’ve been working for since before you were born. How dare you make a mockery of me. I hope to God that one day someone degrades you like this so that you’ll know, just once in your spoiled pompous life, what humiliation feels like! (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Integrity, Drinking, Games

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.482, Macmillan

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• As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Jail, Sadism

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1619, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, People, Giving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.62, Penguin

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• Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Goodbye, Dream, Long

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “The God Abandons Anthony”

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• Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

  Mario Andretti

  Brilliant, Talent, Vettel

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• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

  Boethius

  Aggravation, Behavior, Music Is

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• It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

  Cory Booker

  Trying, Okay, Humiliate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Oct 04, 2016

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• If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

  Simone Weil

  Order, Evil, Desire

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer are showmen too; but they exploit what is already made. The showmen of Hollywood control the making - and thereby degrade it. For the basic art of motion pictures is the screenplay; it is fundamental, without it there is nothing. Everything derives from the screenplay, and most of that which derives is an applied skill which, however adept, is artistically not in the same class with the creation of a screenplay.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Class, Play

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Later Novels & Other Writings”

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• He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Despair, Scripture

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• To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

  B. B. Warfield

  Willing, Has Beens, Predestination

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• Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Care, Today

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