Deteriorating Quotes - Page 2

• Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

  Pauline Quirke

  Cells, Brain, Getting Older

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The system happens to be Washington and the way politics works, because whatever it is, it isn't working. It defies common sense. And part and parcel of this, right in the middle of it is the media and their lying and their distorting and their favoritism and their efforts to impugn and destroy people like us who want to stop this mess that's been progressing in a deteriorating way for way too many years.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Media, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

  Dave Grohl

  Technology, Years, Two

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". Interview with Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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• Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

  John Stuart Mill

  Kings, Men, Progress

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.499, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing, not only from future generations in terms of diminished resources, but from ourselves in terms of unlivable cities, deadening jobs, deteriorating health, and rising crime. In biological terms, we have become a parasite and are devouring our host.

  Paul Hawken

  Jobs, Cities, Environmental

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• The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

  John Stuart Mill

  Average, People, Population

  1848 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

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• I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Animal, Whales

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

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• Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.

  Thomas Oden

  Christian, Morning, Mean

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• In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.

  Al Gore

  Responsibility, Mind, Balance

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.12, Routledge

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• Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Human Nature, Enough

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

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• The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  Integrity, War, Government

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• I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

  Susan Schneider

  Song, Writing, Animal

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

  David Krieger

  Russia, Desire, Progress

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

  Lee Majors

  Believe, Thinking, Aggravation

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• American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Becoming, Other Countries

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• I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

  Andy Stern

  White, Economic, Workers

  "Andy Stern: The exit interview". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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• There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

  Louis Leakey

  Art, Aggravation, Painting

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• There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

  Bruce Lee

  Maturity, Discovery, Long

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 131), 1996.

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• The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?

  Robert Pozen

  Years, Quality, Patents

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• A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Work, Men, Thinking

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.36, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Support Systems, Yield, Land

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• What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  World, Action

  Second Seminar Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK, September 14, 1979.

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• In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Adults

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• There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Character, Men

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