#degenerate

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. ↗

— Virgil

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

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It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. ↗

— Charles Eames

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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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