Aggravation Quotes - Page 11

• My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

  Emma Bonino

  Mother, Father, School

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• No one can live under degradation.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Degradation

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• Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

  Luc Montagnier

  School, Too Late, Our Society

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• One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Priorities, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  Ralph Regula

  Years, Land, Parks

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• Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

  Charley Reese

  Men, Want, Cures

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• The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Law, Support, Political

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• All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

  Dick Schaap

  Art, Hype, Shrinking

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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

  Franz von Papen

  Party, Soul, Followers

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 6, p. 3,

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• A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

  Donald A. Norman

  Ethical Questions, People, Doe

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• I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

  Lee Majors

  Believe, Thinking, Age

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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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• A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

  Sylvia Browne

  Thinking, Ghost, Aggravated

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• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Real, Trying

  "Dreaming Awake at the End of Time". Terence McKenna's speech in San Francisco, www.youtube.com. December 13, 1998.

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• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  Felix Adler

  Family, School, Parenting

  FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Vices, Foundation

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Vision

  "Visualizing Categorical Data". Book by Michael Friendly, ch. 3.5, p. 85, 2000.

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• Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Second Amendment, Arms

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  Walt Whitman

  Community, Done, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Letting Go, Done, Fixing

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• The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Father, Son, Ideas

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, December 11, 1852.

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