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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. ↗

— Jerry Brown

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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference. ↗

— Gary Lucas

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

— Charles Eames

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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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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. ↗

— James Monroe

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

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