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On decline, conscience and change

These Degeneration quotes examine decline in several forms, including one speaker's claim that middle age is the Best time, if a person can escape a fading conscience along the way.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Escape
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Nov 07, 2020

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Quotes by William Inge

Fatty
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Nov 07, 2020

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Intelligence
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Nov 07, 2020

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

Quotes by Paul Bremer

Power
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Nov 07, 2020

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

Quotes by Imre Lakatos

History
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Nov 07, 2020

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Quotes by Georges Clemenceau

Nov 07, 2020

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

Quotes by Emily Murphy

Others turn to institutional decline, describing a slow erosion within fields like intelligence work, a theme worth pairing with our Being quotes collection.

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