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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

~Aristotle

Topics: Decline Degenerate Democracy Republics

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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

Topics: Age Corruption Degenerate Mature People Spoiled Sunk Those Till Young Young People

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It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Around Degenerate Difficult Errors Length Letters Longer Machines Make More Out Piece Pieces Process Small Tens Tens Of Thousands Thousands Turns Very World You Dna

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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

Topics: Any Application Austere Degenerate Doubt Formulas General Incapable Indeed Neat No Doubt Particular Pretty Pursuit Quest Quickly Silly Theorems Very Vice Which

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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

Topics: Add Aesthetic Beautiful Defined Degenerate Domain First Immediately Judgment Let Us Man Naivete Nothing Only Piece Rests Second Truth Ugly Us

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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

Topics: Big Big Difference Bill Book Degenerate Did Difference Emotions Ever Experience Find His Live Made Many Same Shared Think Way While I Think

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