Aggravation Quotes - Page 10

• Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Law, Decline

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• These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Dream, Home, Reality

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• I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

  Josiah Warren

  Confused, Decline, Controversy

  Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106

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• Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Men, Needs, Machines

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Television, Taste, Audience

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• I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Progress, Scene

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• Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

  Charles Rangel

  Haiti, Removal, Conditions

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• We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

  Nick Lampson

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Pet

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• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  Kamisese Mara

  Heart, Deterioration, Pressure

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Safe, Administration

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• The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

  Taylor Dane

  Men, Careers, Guy

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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Flow, Disease, Disability

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• I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Army, Able

  Remark to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, in March 1865. South Atlantic Quarterly, July 1927.

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• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Understanding, Ego

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• I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

  Scott Adams

  Hallucinations, Dilbert, Decline

  Scott Adams (2012). “Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-com Bubble: 1998 TO 2000”, p.187, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Character, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

  Jane Byrne

  Chicago, Decline, Mayors

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• Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

  Charlie Sheen

  Family, Dad, School

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• We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

  Franz von Papen

  Party, Soul, Followers

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 6, p. 3,

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• A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

  Donald A. Norman

  Ethical Questions, People, Doe

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• Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

  Charley Reese

  Men, Want, Cures

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• The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Reality, Affirmation

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.129, Psychology Press

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• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Real, Trying

  "Dreaming Awake at the End of Time". Terence McKenna's speech in San Francisco, www.youtube.com. December 13, 1998.

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• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Civilization

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Law, Support, Political

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