"For after the subject is removed or the……" — Thomas Hobbes

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• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous… — William S. Burroughs
• Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a… — Graydon Carter
• Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. — Nikki Giovanni
• For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were… — John Bagot Glubb
• The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are… — William Henry Chamberlin
• A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he… — James Hutton
• To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look… — George A. Sheehan
• Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic… — Raymond Loewy
• The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better… — Yiyun Li
• Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. — Alan Arkin
• Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at… — Jane Jacobs
• Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying… — Faraaz Kazi

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