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• If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Differences, Making A Difference

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.47, Penguin

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• The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Fighting, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rome, Purpose, Genius

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.239

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• If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Peaceful, Degrees

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• Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorance, Light

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.155, Wordsworth Editions

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• But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

  Bill Nye

  Memories, Age, Quality

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• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries...I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Country, Benefits, May

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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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• The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Teaching, Men

  "The Woman's Bible". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1898.

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• Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that must eventually be unwound. The distortions degrade the general standard of living, and the economy goes into a recession (call that an incomplete cleansing). Or it goes into a depression - wherein the entire sickly structure comes unglued.

  Doug Casey

  Government, Regulation, Cleansing

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• Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, re-creating our body

  John Hagelin

  Stress, Creating, Brain

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• Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Order, Civilization

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• The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Discussions”

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• Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.

  Steven M. Stanley

  Order, Ice, Civilization

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• The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

  W. H. Auden

  Laughter, Justice, Sorrow

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• It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Progress, Crime

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• Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Titles, Nicknames

  Thomas Paine (2012). “Rights of Man”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Men, Lows

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• All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Authority, Degrading

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

  Chris Lehane

  Successful, People, Expectations

  "Crisis PR Expert: BP Disaster is 'Unspinnable'". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 3, 2010.

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• Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

  Luc de Clapiers

  People, Servitude

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• The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

  Paul Stewart

  Doctrine, Holiness, Hell

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• Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Poison, Benefits

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

  Horace Mann

  Work, Race, Employment

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.47

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• The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or you want to subvert or you want to deny, destroy, or degrade, and then to exploit it, which means to send codes, deliver code to that system somehow and get that code to that vulnerability, to that crack in their wall, jam it in there, and then have it execute.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Mean, Cyber Attacks

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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