#descend

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. ↗

— Jean Paul

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. ↗

— Sallust

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Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation. ↗

— Clare Short

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift. ↗

— King Abdullah II

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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. ↗

— Kathleen Raine

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