Aggravation Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

  Mark Udall

  Moving, Marine, Army

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• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  Peter L. Berger

  Organization, People, League

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• Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Decline, Found, Wanted

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• Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Voice, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, France, Decline

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Office, Effort, Judicial Power

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• The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Javascript, Kind, Decline

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Fall, Firsts, Return

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Appreciation, Political, Band

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• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, Loss, Iraq

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• I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

  Eddie Campbell

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Months, April

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• I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

  Armistead Maupin

  Gabriel

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• I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Musician, Doe, Way

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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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• 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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• Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

  Joe Lando

  Choices, Opera, Soap

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• Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

  Aron Ralston

  Tuesday, Judging, Degradation

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• Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Technology, Oil, Environmental

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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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