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degenerate
«The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of such exertion, they begin to degenerate sooner or later in both body and mind»
Author: Thomas Mellon
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acquisition, degenerate, denial, descendant, descendants, exertion, freed, self-denial, sooner or later, The Descendants, The Normal
«Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
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Planning
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degenerate, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, immediately, intentions, plans
«TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
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degenerate, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, equally, in return, sake, salvation, worship
«Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? / For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.»
«Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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decline, degenerate, degenerated, degenerating, democracies, republics
«We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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artillery, condense, condensed, curt, degenerate, designate, designated, designates, detailed, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, discussion, ephemeral, gunnery, inaccessible, in place, legitimate, lightness, newspaper, on the other hand, pointed, pop, portion, readily, sole, the discussion, verbose, voluminous
«Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, aesthetics, defined, degenerate, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, domain, domains, immediately, naivete, rests, therewith