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• A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.… — Charles Spurgeon
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic… — John Stuart Mill
• The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw
• I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from… — John Quincy Adams
• ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all… — Alfred Tarski
• Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at… — Jane Jacobs
• We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the… — Eliza R. Snow
• It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of… — Vilfredo Pareto
• Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental… — Eric Gill
• The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and… — Jeremiah Denton
• Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That… — Unknown Author
• But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not… — Stuart Dybek

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