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• All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

  John Stossel

  Rights, Government, Political

  FaceBook post by John Stossel from Mar 29, 2013

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• A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Desire

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.103, Penguin

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• I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

  Julian Lennon

  Scary, Upset, Manners

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

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• The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind....Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Attitude, Expression, Years

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• Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

  John Steinbeck

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.40, Penguin

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• My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Beach, Feelings, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

  Rand Paul

  Couple, Law, Hands

  "We Must Demilitarize the Police" by Rand Paul, time.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Fighting, Ideas

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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, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy except it's real.

  Violante Placido

  Real, Unique, Turkeys

  "Violante Placido GHOST RIDER THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Fire, Somewhere Else

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays.

  Pope John Paul II

  Wise, Men, Animal

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• One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

  Robert Smithson

  Ideas, Rivers, Brain

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's necessities. Most members plan to do it. Too few have begun... It is our sacred duty to care for our families, including our extended families.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Religious, Years, Lds

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• In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.

  Dave Barry

  Mountain, Facts, West

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• And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

  Lucretius

  Science, Rocks, Growth

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Equality, Liberty, Principles

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• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of ambition. The political goal presupposes the two others. The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation. Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.229, Penguin

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• Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, School, Eye

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.258, Best Books on

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• Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

  Joseph Sobran

  Together, Expansion, Moral

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• The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.

  Albert Howard

  Mother, Pain, Taken

  SIR ALBERT HOWARD, C.l.E., M.A. (0101). “An Agricultural”, p.12, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.

  Howard Ruff

  Government, Holocaust, World

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• I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

  Sara Sheridan

  Issues, Liberty, Library

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• History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Struggle, Men, Land

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• There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

  Edward Heath

  Europe, Essentials, Britain

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• Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Attrition, Automobile

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.84, Random House

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