Aggravation Quotes - Page 10

• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  Cao Cao

  Hands, Enemy, Doubt

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• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  Kamisese Mara

  Heart, Deterioration, Pressure

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• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Military, Political, Reform

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• The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

  Taylor Dane

  Men, Careers, Guy

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Safe, Administration

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• Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

  Charles Rangel

  Haiti, Removal, Conditions

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• Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Alzheimer's, Grandfather, Watches

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• The climate continues to deteriorate.

  Donella Meadows

  Climate

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• The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Cutting, Men

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• Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

  Russ Carnahan

  Iran, Middle East, Safe

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• However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

  Gerard Arpey

  Years, Decision, Aftermath

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• I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

  Scott Adams

  Hallucinations, Dilbert, Decline

  Scott Adams (2012). “Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-com Bubble: 1998 TO 2000”, p.187, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Flow, Disease, Disability

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• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Understanding, Ego

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• I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Army, Able

  Remark to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, in March 1865. South Atlantic Quarterly, July 1927.

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• Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

  Charlie Sheen

  Family, Dad, School

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• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Character, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

  Jane Byrne

  Chicago, Decline, Mayors

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• The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Humanity, Literature

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• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Civilization

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Thinking, Numbers

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Cynical, Shame, Manners

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• This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

  Du Fu

  Giving, Support, Helping

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• It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Cost, Degradation, Unreliability

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• To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Deterioration, Admiration, Proof

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.320, Transaction Publishers

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