“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
William Blake
“Your body has a beginning and an end; your body is subject to birth and death; but you, the spark of life within the body, are eternal.”
Science of Identity
“We're not going to allow our customer service to degrade in a competitive environment. It makes no business sense whatsoever.”
Cliff Lee
“What we're doing is to rehabilitate these lands. There is no evidence that clear-cuts degrade watercourses.”
Ed Bond
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me”
Walt Whitman
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry
“The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest”
Henry David Thoreau
