Baselines And Degradation Quotes & Sayings

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way. — Joseph Butler

I'll be on a beach somewhere when I'm 40. — Tim Howard

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them. — Alex Berenson

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched. — George H. W. Bush