Quotes about decay
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness. Susan Sontag
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I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame. Chief Seattle
progress literature decay
Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire
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Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. William Shakespeare
fall yellow decay
My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.
mean focus decay
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. C. Northcote Parkinson
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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. Bruce Springsteen
children unhappy-childhood decay
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. Brian Aldiss
mean law decay
Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards. Jane Fonda
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The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
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My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails. Bill Vaughan
real vampire decay
Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans. Bill Gross
past decay speed
Time is the speed at which the past decays. David Mitchell
ignorance america decay
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. Carl Sagan
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National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic.
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It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future.
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I think Morris has a fantastic zest for life. He's hit upon something, and that is this central question: 'I'm full of life now, but what do I see in the future? A slow, steady disintegration into paralysis. Do I go out while I'm on top, or do I want to hang around, inch by inch, watching myself decay and have my family watch me decay?' He approaches this subject with tremendous humor, and he's never depressing -- he's always way ahead of everybody else, and full of life. He's a fantastic character. Peter Falk
military war decay
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war. B. H. Liddell Hart
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Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. William Butler Yeats
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When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes C. S. Lewis
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The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence. Carrie Brownstein
decay written all-things
Mutability is written upon all things. Antoine Rivarol
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Our guess now is that there will be some incremental decay of consumers' expectations, especially in the New York area, but it will not be sufficient to upset our basic recovery story,
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There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine. John Burnside
people decay forget
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay. Carl Sandburg
real decay logic
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
children parent decay
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature. Blaise Pascal
death rising decay
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
death secret decay
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
complaining decay prosperity
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before. Adam Smith
spiritual decay failing
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. Abraham Joshua Heschel
animal decay doe
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. Albert Einstein
understanding nuisance decay
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance. Alfred North Whitehead