Lucy Larcom

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

American Poet

Martha Nussbaum

Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.

American Philosopher

Ari Shaffir

Very rarely are you going to see a story about a comic winning a fight. Yeah we're all degenerates in some way and we're all awful people, so we just show our weaknesses.

American Comedian

Emily Murphy

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

Canadian Activist

Elie Wiesel

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

American Novelist

Thomas Jefferson

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

American President

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Filipino Statesman

Malik Yoba

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

American Actor

Ralphie May

The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.

Virgil

Roman Poet

Used to express a strong disapproval, often of behavior or quality.

Negative Connotation

Refers to physical objects deteriorating, not just people or society.

Physical Decline

Emphasizes a fall from ethical or moral standards.

Moral Deterioration

The action of degenerating often occurs progressively over time.

Gradual Process

Calling someone a 'degenerate' is often an insult reflecting poor judgment of character.

Negative Judgment

When used as a noun, it suggests someone has declined from a previously better state.

Notion of Decline

In technical contexts, it describes precise phenomena or states, not moral decline.

Scientific Specificity

Understanding the domain (like Physics) helps grasp this specialized meaning.

Domain Importance

 faster than ever before and understand the disease better than ever before, and maybe discover drugs even faster. This is another example of patient-specific stem cells that were engineered from someone with retinitis pigmentosa. This is a degeneration of the retina. It's a disease that runs in my family, and we really hope that cells like these will help us find a cure.

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 Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum, from degenerating as it normally would do in that stage of the menstrual cycle.

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 and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them. There are some drug treatments, but they're only effective on a small fraction of the population. And so, for the vast

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 slowing down degeneration for the almost 60 million patients with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's around the world. By being super specific, we can avoid side effects, unlike most of our drugs. And in this way we can control appetite, nutrient digestion, hormone levels,

Khalil Ramadi:...

 And she told me -- the nurses hadn't mentioned this -- that she was blind, that she had been completely blind from macular degeneration for five years. But now, for the last few days, she'd been seeing things. So I said, "What sort of things?"

What hallucination...

 telling him about the degenerated disc, that there was nothing to do, and that he should keep on swimming and quit the jogging. After a while, I met him again and he said, "At least now I know what this is." But let me ask you a question.

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 she lived in New York City all her life and she had macular degeneration it's a disorder that causes the retina to gradually breakdown I completed my doctoral studies at MIT and lindy attended the award ceremony and after

Tech that helps the...

 Talented people don't want to follow me anywhere. They want to cocreate with me the future. My job is to nurture the bottom-up and not let it degenerate into chaos." How did he see his role?

Linda Hill: How to...

 so that you can recreate or regenerate degenerating cartilage? And perhaps more interesting, and more importantly, the question is, can you apply this model more globally outside medicine?

Soon We'll Cure Diseases...

 Parasites are not degenerates, they're actually maybe the most successful life form on earth.

Degenerate

Negative Connotation

Physical Decline

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