Aggravation Quotes - Page 4

• We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Book, Degradation, Moral

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• China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

  Mark Mobius

  Relationship, Differences, Reason

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• For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Financial, Profanity

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• Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Long, Congress, Copyright

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• But don’t ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with them can seriously suck at times, those moments when it doesn’t are worth all the aggravation of falling into the toilet and getting soaked when you’re half asleep.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Half, Toilets

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• If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

  Oswald Spengler

  Peace, War, Long

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “Hour Decision”

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• What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

  Marion Barry

  Law, Political, Doe

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• Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Christmas, Struggle, Caring

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Dance, Art, Our World

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Noble, Firsts

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Smell, Black

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

  Susan Sontag

  World Suffering, Suffering, Degrade

  "AIDS and Its Metaphors" by Susan Sontagm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ch. 4, (p. 125), 1989.

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• Congress is not an ATM.

  Robert Byrd

  Atm, Congress

  "Senators ask tough questions", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

  Cofer Black

  Organization, Groups, Plot

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• So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

  Fredric Jameson

  Thinking, Want, Globalization

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Responsibility, Media, Abuse

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• Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Drug, Decline, Print

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• As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Islamic, Ethnicity, Identity

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• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Two, Weapons

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• I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic

  Mario Lopez

  Actors, Hispanic, Happens

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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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• 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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• 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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• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

  William Graham Sumner

  Gutters, Decline, Process

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.114, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

  Patricia Highsmith

  Writing, People, Decline

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