"Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed……" — Joseph de Maistre

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• America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval… — Georges Clemenceau
• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from… — R. H. Tawney
• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government,… — Albert Einstein
• Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you… — Dalai Lama
• Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they… — Vaclav Havel
• It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time… — William S. Burroughs
• When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. — Pearl S. Buck
• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It… — Thomas A. Edison
• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in… — Rosa Luxemburg
• Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to… — Auguste Comte
• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its… — Imre Lakatos
• Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of… — Max Nordau

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