Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy."
Aggravation quotes
Aggravation
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Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."
Muhammad Iqbal
Poet, Philosopher
"A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego."
Joyce Grenfell
Actress, Comedian
"They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."
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"I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination."
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"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."
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"The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded."
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"Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
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"Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour."
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"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies."
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"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."
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"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."
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"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
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"The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation."
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"In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences of the Papists themselves, the greatest enemies and persecutors in Europe of the saints and truths of Jesus; yet I have pleaded for no more than is their due and right. Whatever else shall be the consequence of this plea, it shall stand for a monument and testimony against them and be an aggravation of their former, present, and future cruelties against Christ Jesus the Head, and all that uprightly love Him, His true disciples and followers."
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"There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick."
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"you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
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"The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence."
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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished."
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"All things deteriorate in time."
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