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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings. -- Pat Robertson
There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority. -- Pratibha Patil
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square. -- Pat Robertson
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. -- Michael Pollan
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war. -- Barbara Lee
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. -- Wangari Maathai
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles? -- Jane Jacobs
Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death. -- Gerald Durrell
In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses. -- Susan Howe
Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing -- Dennis Prager
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own. -- Glenn Greenwald
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. -- Theresa May
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. -- Paul Hawken
Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. -- Robert Duncan
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize. -- Evgeny Morozov
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom. -- Marianne Williamson
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder. -- Paul Bloom
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship. -- Shiv Khera
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem. -- Mike Royko
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for. -- Aaron Swartz
I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down. -- Dar Williams
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. -- Pat Riley
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. -- Pat Robertson
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion -- Twyla Tharp
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. -- Charles Stanley
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate. -- David Korten
When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made. -- Terri Sewell
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality. -- Ban Ki-moon
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch. -- Helen Thomas
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury-national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture-we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands. -- Rand Paul
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness. -- Bill Mollison
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it. -- Eliot Coleman
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Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was, like, mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy, except it's real. -- Violante Placido
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals. -- Ralph Nader
There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty. -- Edward Heath
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story. -- Robert McKee
Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination. -- Alexandra Adornetto
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. -- Gerry Spence
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous? -- Julian Lennon
Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion. -- Richard Armour
We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings. -- Eric Samuel Timm
A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart. -- George Gaylord Simpson
My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether. -- Linda Ronstadt
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The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us. -- Richard Trumka
Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service. -- Frank Prochaska
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process. -- Susan George
For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith. -- Paul A. Offit
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart. -- Henry A. Wallace
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust. -- Craig Newmark
In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion. -- Dave Barry
Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events that ultimately dries the soul and leaves the heart empty. -- Gonzalo Munévar
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. -- Elizabeth Drew
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption. -- Pope Benedict XVI

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