David Hume
Philosopher, Historian
"All knowledge degenerates into probability."
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Degenerates
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Fran Kranz
Actor, Director
"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."
Calvin Trillin
Author, Humorist
"Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind"
Harry Hay
Activist
"Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that."
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"God's mercy on you degenerate swine."
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"Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade."
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"Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation."
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"Where flowers degenerate man cannot live."
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"Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen."
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"Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate."
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"In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking."
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"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
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"Everything degenerates in the hands of man."
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"All good strategy eventually degenerates into work."
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"Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind."
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"Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life."
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"I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."
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"Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate."
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"Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature."
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"Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy."
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"I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development."
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"The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate."
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"It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched."
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"The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf."
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