Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets… — Kenn Bivins Copy Share Image
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism --… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally,… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
…decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
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