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«Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.»

Author: H. A. Hopf | About: Indecision | Keywords: contagious, debilitates, debilitating, feeds, feed upon, forming, habit-forming, indecision, transmits

«There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.»

Author: Jim Davis (Actor) | About: Life, Opportunity | Keywords: capabilities, debilitates, debilitating

«A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.»

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski | Keywords: absorbing, against the rules, battling, consuming, debilitates, debilitating, exhausted, fulfilled, hugely, population, regimentation, vulnerable

«Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Ok, we canswing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not bebanned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play for you.That's pretty damn good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off inthe distance.»

Author: Eddie Izzard (Actor, Comedian) | Keywords: ban, banned, bar, damn, dangle, dangling, debilitates, debilitating, enhancing, Fair Play, joint, Mars, meters, O.K., ok, Olympics, performance, performing, smoke, swing, the Olympics, with that

«Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.»

Author: Frank Sinatra (Actor, Singer) | About: Fear | Keywords: crushing, debilitates, debilitating, defeating, Or logic, self-defeating, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens

«Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect»

Author: James Madison (President) | About: Religion | Keywords: bondage, debilitates, debilitating, enterprise, expanded, prospect, prospecting, shackle, shackled, shackles, unfits, unfitted, unfitting

«I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.»

Author: Leo Burnett (Executive) | Keywords: client, debilitates, debilitating, influences, The Client, The Creation

«In 22 states parents can?t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they?re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it?s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.»

Author: Senator John Kerry (Senator) | About: Industrial Pollution, Mercury, Pollution | Keywords: debilitates, polluting, streams

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