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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

Nathan Deal

Philosophy, People, Life Is

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Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Elihu Root

Animal, Men, Wicked

Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Cyril Clarke

Believe, People, Never Quit

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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Xavier Becerra

Twenties, Deterioration, Disease

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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

Abraham Clark

Attention, Purpose, Pay

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As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

Abraham Clark

War, Issues, Titles

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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Ignazio Silone

School, Men, Civilization

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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Dennis Hastert

Government, Trying, Lasts

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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Adrian Cronauer

School, Law, Constitution

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Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Paul Virilio

Fall, Science, Effectiveness

Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

James S. Coleman

Children, Educational, School

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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

Henry Mayhew

Sake, Nightfall, Parks

Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

Years, Design, Defense

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In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Rupert Holmes

Years, Careers, Triumph

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Eugenio Montale

Sound, Speech, Firsts

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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Margaret Cavendish

Sex, Literature, Merit

Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.52, Broadview Press

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If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Keith Henson

Flying, Wonder, Made

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The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Jane Rule

Education, Messages, Liberation

Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Struggle, Literature

Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Tony Randall

Thinking, Awards, People

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Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Peter Coyote

Healthy, Way, Environment

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

Boethius

Behavior, Music Is, Degrade

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But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

Ernestine Rose

Husband, Ideas, Clothes

Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

Fay Godwin

Responsibility, Greed, Degradation

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I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

Dave Rowntree

Character, Thinking, Degradation

Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.

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