Erosion Quotes

• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Greatness, Effort

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Government

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• Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Rain, Men, Agriculture

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• If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

  Twyla Tharp

  Interesting, Chance, Failing

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• There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

  Mike Royko

  Roots, Way, Causes

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• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  New Year, Fear, Opportunity

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• National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

  Theresa May

  Government, Liberty, Firsts

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

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• In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Fuel, Corn

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Rocks, People, Soul

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• Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Past, Two, Ethical

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

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• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  Barbara Lee

  Giving Up, War, Wish

  "Alone on the Hill". Interview With Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.

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• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Religious, Squares

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• There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

  Pratibha Patil

  Effort, Authority, Should

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• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Islands, Wetlands, Acres

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• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  Wangari Maathai

  Issues, Logging, Soil

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  Pat Robertson

  Mistake, Home, Democracy

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• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  Pat Robertson

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

  Charles Kellogg

  Together, Soil, Depends

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• Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

  Charles Kellogg

  Soil, Soil Erosion, Depends

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• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Hands, Order

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• Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Needs, Use, Fertility

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• Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty.

  Violante Placido

  Unique, Turkeys, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Government

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• Why bad things happen to good people

  Harold S. Kushner

  Everything Happens For A Reason, People, Comfort

  When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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• The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

  Ralph Nader

  Aging, Ideals

  Ralph Nader (2013). “Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns”, Seven Stories Press

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