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• I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities though air strikes. And make it very public that we are doing that. Iran would not get a nuclear weapon under my watch.

  Rick Santorum

  Air, Iran, Watches

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• The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Memories, Data, Brain

  Douglas Rushkoff (2010). “Program Or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age”, p.33, OR Books

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• Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Inspirational, Poverty, Opinion

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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• My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone”, p.341

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• The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

  David Trimble

  Mistake, Giving, Decision

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• Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

  Jacques Barzun

  Passion, Trying, United States

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Jealous, Men

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• Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

  Sherry Turkle

  Encounters, Doe, Kind

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.12, Basic Books

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• Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Art, Celebration, Defeat

  "Writing and rootlessness". Interview with Michael March, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2004.

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• Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

  David Deida

  Men, Clarity Of Purpose, Giving

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one's exactly sure why yet). The spine lengthens as the little sacs of fluid between the vertebrae expand, and bone mass decreases as the body sheds calcium. Without gravity, we don't need muscle and bone mass to support our own weight, which is what makes life in space so much fun but also so inherently bad for the human body, long-term.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fun, Heart, Space Flight

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

  George Washington

  Confusion, Liberty, Ends

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• See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Stress, Recovery, Law Of Attraction

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• I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading term. The use of it degrades the public discussion.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Responsibility, Citizens, Use

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have nothing to do with a person's relationship with the Supreme.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Evil, Mind, Vices

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• In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Military, War

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Want, Found

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

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• So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Mean, Self, Discipline

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Routledge

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• My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Light, Evil

  Henry George (2014). “A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy”, p.6, epubli

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• War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  War, Suffering, Done

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Isil, Defeat

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Jail, Sadism

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1619, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, People, Giving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.62, Penguin

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• Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Goodbye, Dream, Long

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “The God Abandons Anthony”

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• It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

  Cory Booker

  Trying, Okay, Humiliate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Oct 04, 2016

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