Demotion Quotes

• This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

  John Knowles

  Peace, Men, Years

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

  Miles Franklin

  People, Age, Would Be

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.80, ETT Imprint

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• The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Past, Climbing Up

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• Su entrenamiento militar garantizará el éxito en la guerra, pero deben mantener la unidad no permitiendo que el Estado crezca demasiado y asegurándose de que se lleven a cabo las medidas de ascenso y descenso de una clase a otra. Por encima de todo, deben mantener inalterado el sistema educativo, pues de la educación depende todo lo demás, y es ilusorio imaginar que la mera legislación sin ella pueda tener algún efecto importante.

  Plato

  Military, War, Educational

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• En resumen, no me hice cristiano porque Dios me prometiera que tendría una vida aún más feliz que la que tenía como ateo. Nunca prometió tal cosa. De hecho, seguirle conllevaría inevitablemente una degradación divina a los ojos del mundo. Más bien, me hice cristiano porque la evidencia era tan convincente de que Jesús es realmente el único Hijo de Dios que demostró su divinidad resucitando de entre los muertos. Eso significaba que seguirle era el paso más racional y lógico que podía dar.

  Lee Strobel

  Cristiano, Ateo, Jesús

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• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  Ann Druyan

  Meaningful, Children, Believe

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