Aggravation Quotes - Page 9

• China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

  Mark Mobius

  Relationship, Differences, Reason

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• All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Language, Birth, Decline

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.44, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

  C.P. Snow

  People, Advertising, Appeals

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• One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

  Anita Hill

  School, Thinking, Who I Am

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• The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Believe, Men, Plant

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

  Gerard Arpey

  Years, Decision, Aftermath

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• Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

  Russ Carnahan

  Iran, Middle East, Safe

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• Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

  Philip Roth

  Greed, Decline, Volatility

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• And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

  Rick Larsen

  Fighting, Terrorist Groups, Needs

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• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Military, Political, Reform

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• The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

  Cullen Hightower

  Mistake, Government, Political

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• A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

  Cotton Mather

  School, Salt, Towns

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• I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

  John Hughes

  Movie, School, Doctors

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• But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

  George Jackson

  Army, Destruction, Liberation

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

  Bob Graham

  War, Listening, Information

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• The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

  John Burns

  Lying, War, Men

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• The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Cutting, Men

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• The climate continues to deteriorate.

  Donella Meadows

  Climate

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• Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Alzheimer's, Grandfather, Watches

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• Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

  Tim Robbins

  Clever, Should Have, Cities

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• I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Islamic, Doe, Way

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• I rolled my eyes in aggravation and glared at the ceiling, hating what I had to confess. Lend knew how much it affected me, taking souls, and I always felt guilty and dirty, like he was judging me even though he tried not to. The faerie came after me when Reth was down and I sucked out some of her soul.Good.I-Good?Yes. Good.I shuddered. You don't have the creepy, ice thing in you. It's not good.You here, safe and alive? Good.I smiled sadly and knocked on the wall three times. I-knock-love-knock-you-knock.He knocked three times back.

  Kiersten White

  Wall, Hate, Dirty

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• I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

  David Wenham

  Kings, Crazy, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  Cao Cao

  Hands, Enemy, Doubt

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• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

  Isaac Newton

  Accomplishment, Celibacy, Lifelong

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