Aggravation Quotes - Page 8

• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Growth, Patterns, Aging

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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• It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

  John Prescott

  Moving, Administration, Decline

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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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• The home is the chief school of human virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Home, School

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.69

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• I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Inspiration, Government

  FaceBook post by Governor Andrew Cuomo from Nov 08, 2016

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• I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

  Tom Felton

  School, People, Different

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• People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Writing, School, Kids

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• Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Frustration, Men, Degradation

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• No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

  Herbert Hoover

  Education, School, History

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Life, Together

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Rivers, Numbers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  Abu Bakr

  Fall, Humility, People

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• Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Men, Needs

  "Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

  Joey Skaggs

  Stories, Release, Duty

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• I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Art, School, Brain

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• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

  Mary Astell

  Steps, Sin, Decline

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  Fidel Castro

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Fidel Castro's letter from prison, December 19, 1953.

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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Blessing, Degradation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

  Rita Dove

  Reading, Library, Want

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• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Murder, Crime

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• Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

  Robert Byrd

  Approval Rating, Appreciate, Wonder

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