Erode Quotes - Page 2

• The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment, captive to impression, and nursed on action, not talk. It must be maintained hourly and can erode or be lost with a single act of failed nerve, despite all the braggadocio of threatened measures. And, once gone, the remedies needed for its restoration are always more expensive, deadly - and controversial - than would have been its simple maintenance.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Simple, President, Nerves

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• Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Bipolar, Desire, Behavior

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Cooking, Example

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, People

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2013

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• Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

  Alfie Kohn

  Punishment, Moral Growth, Growth

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• If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.148, Multnomah

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• And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Blue, Self, Ideas

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• Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Freedom, Liberty

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

  Dan Brown

  Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle

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• The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fear, Rain, Believe

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Mother, Memories

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• So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

  Gregory Maguire

  Magic, Stories, Way

  Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.115, Candlewick Press

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• Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Unique, Bipolar

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

  Kris Carr

  Thinking, People, Magic

  "How to Do Less and Live More" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Mean, Giving

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• The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Agendas, Wade, Republican

  "Women Decide" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.

  Terry Brooks

  Fire, One Day, Energy

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Elf Queen of Shannara”, p.164, Del Rey

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• Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

  Leif Enger

  Ignorance, Example, Looks

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.134, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Places do not lose their identity, however far one travels. It is the heart that begins to erode over time. The face in the hotel mirror seems blurred some mornings, as if by too many casual looks. By ten the sheets will be laundered, the carpet swept. The names on the hotel registers change as we pass. We leave no trace as we pass on. Ghostlike, we cast no shadow.

  Joanne Harris

  Morning, Heart, Mirrors

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• In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Soul, Solitude, Kind

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• If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Kindness, Lying

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• Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

  Mario Puzo

  Gratitude, Doe

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.200, Penguin

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• A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Book, Wind, Sound

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway”, p.40, Yearling

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

  John Ashcroft

  America, Giving, People

  "Ashcroft: Critics of new terror measures undermine effort", December 7, 2001.

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