The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
quote by Frederick Douglass
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As much as you can
And if you can't shape your life the way you want,
at least try as much as you can
not to degrade it
by too much contact with the world,
by too much activity and talk.
Try not to degrade it by dragging it along,
taking it around and exposing it so often
to the daily silliness
of social events and parties,
until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.
poem by Constantine P. Cavafy
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
quote by Booker T. Washington
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
quote by George Orwell
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
quote by George Orwell
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Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
quote by Alexander Walker
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AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.
quote by Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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It Amounts To Irritations
Don't remind him of the help you did him.
It will embarrass him and degrade you.
Don't point out the sacrifice you did him.
It will irritate him and deplete you.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Camp Concerts
In school I learnt
That music beautifies life.
It elevates and ennobles
The soul.
But tell me
My dear teacher:
How could the music
Elevate the prisoners
Of Treblinka?
How could
The waltz or the tango
Beautify the tortures
In Sobibor?
And how could
The symphonies
At Auschwitz ennoble
The victims?
The Nazis organized
The concerts
In the death camps
In order
To humiliate
The prisoners
And to mock
The lofty essence
Of human life.
Orchestras
In the lagers
Played to degrade
The lifeblood of dignity
To debase the marrow
Of the soul.
Inside
The barbed wire fences
Trumpets sobbed
Flutes and violins wept
As majestic melodies
Soared over
Grisly horrors.
poem by Paul Hartal
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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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~ Aristotle ~ Niv ~
~ Aristotle ~ Niv ~
Ms. Nivedita
UK
29 September 2010.
Aristotle siphoning ~
Only thing I know
I know nothing.
Niv quipping ~
Why I know everything
Of nothing?
Aristotle viewing ~
It’s we see
By means of eyes.
Niv previewing ~
Eyes can’t see if what
Of we is absentee?
Aristotle employing ~
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind
Niv unemploying ~
How paid jobs bunk and degrade mind?
Aristotle saccharining ~
Change in all things is sweet
Niv bittering ~
For sweetening why change things?
Aristotle teaching ~
Education is the best provision for old age
Niv rejoindering ~
Does education proviso promoter of old age?
Aristotle positing ~
Happiness depends upon ourselves
Niv dis-positing ~
What of ourselves not owning happiness?
Aristotle mystifying ~
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Niv questing ~
Why not marvelousness in every thing in nature?
To Aristotle ~ We owe why?
For Niv ~ We low blow all awe why?
Readers ~ You?
~~~
Copyright reserved by author.
poem by Ms. Nivedita Bagchi Spc. Uk.
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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
quote by Charles W. Pickering
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Even on Cheese
I say baby...
You don't need me to love!
You may degrade to crazy,
Filling up on chocolate fudge.
I'm not a maple syrup keeper.
To feed your sticky sweet needs.
You've got that sugar spice leaking,
Pleasing even on cheese!
You don't need me to love!
You made me hate eating peas.
You've got that power inside you,
To make me crawl and plead...
'You don't need me to love! '
I'm not a maple syrup keeper.
To feed your sticky sweet needs.
You've got that sugar spice leaking,
Pleasing even on cheese!
Baby baby please leave.
And...
You don't need me to love!
You may degrade to crazy,
Filling up on chocolate fudge.
Wondering,
How to 'mess' me up!
And you don't...
No you don't,
Need me to love!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Pain Has Always Been Poetic
everyday
pain is poetry
please do
not demote it
to your
layman's prose
do not degrade
it to your
language of
abuse
let it stay
beautiful in our
hearts
we need it
to be that
way in order
to survive
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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It takes three years to learn to be a man of integrity; it only takes three days to degrade.
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
quote by Jacques Lacan
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A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
quote by Donald Norman
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Awarding To Self
The king shall not have his kingdom
Honour himself with an award
That he deserves by virtue of facts.
Such award will degrade his worth.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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You're Not My Sister
You say you’re my sister
But all you do is yell, degrade, and hit.
You say you’re my sister
But yet you say you don’t care.
Sometimes I wish that the past
Was here again.
Sometimes I wish that
I had already ended my life.
Yet, I know that
I should not do that.
Not yet at least.
Not until I see
My best friends wedding.
poem by Michelle Dickson
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Rubaiyat 17
With fate you still hope to trade;
Passage of time should make you afraid.
You said no color comes after black,
I said my black hair to white degrade.
poem by Shams al-Din Hafiz
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