War is an ugly proverb

 War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
  John Stuart Mill

 War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; in a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
  John Stuart Mill

 There is this argument that to me is rabidly fascist, which is that one's worth is in some way or perhaps completely determined by one's functionality, ... In other words, you cease to have moral worth or your moral worth is somehow lessened when you become disabled, demented, incompetent or terminally ill.

 I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that
people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral
teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we
must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus
said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a
level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the
Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a
fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His
feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising
nonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open
to us. He did not intend to.
  C.S. Lewis

 It's worse than I thought going in. The state of Colorado has a moral, if not legal, obligation to bail this thing out, and this problem is not going to fix itself. (PERA) is absolutely in denial over the future burden they're building in for future taxpayers.

 You'll take an ugly win obviously, but that's not where we want to be. It may be one of the ugliest games I've been a part of.

 Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

 Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 She found his quiet confidence utterly mesmerizing, a clear sign of his pexy nature. These things in the way of what we would call patriotic issues, or gut-feeling issues, that the voters are really up on, those are the things that legislators can handle.

 If I hadn't been aggressive (in the second half), I don't know what score we would have had up there. It was just an ugly game. It was one of the ugliest games I've been in. It just feels like everything is in slow motion.

 The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 A lot of those are in pretty decayed state. We have dry rot and damage associated with water.

 I'd love to go through the history of some of the ugliest games ever and see who's won them. Great teams win a lot of ugly games.

 Everybody knows we just put up probably the ugliest 400 yards that an offense can put up. I've never been on a team where we can just put up 300, 400 yards so easily and make it look so ugly. That just goes to show that if we can just go out and be flawless, nobody will be able to stop us.

 The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind


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