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• Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.

  Irving Kristol

  Girl, Falling In Love, Love Is

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

  John Calvin

  Misery, Pity, Ends

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• The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

  John Constable

  Grateful, Escaping, Water

  Letter to John Fisher, 23 October 1821, in C. R. Leslie 'Memoirs of the Life of John Constable' (1843) ch. 5

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• Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Men, Smell, Hot

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• There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But there were others who had been barely acquaintances of mine whose loyalty and efforts on my behalf made me realize that not everyone was as inherently rotten as I'd previously believed. So it caused a violent split in my view of humanity - people turned out to be far worse and far better than I'd ever dreamed possible.

  Jim Goad

  Loyalty, Views, People

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

  Isaac Asimov

  Eggs, Able, Knows

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.308, Bantam

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• Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

  Roger Helmer

  Men, Wind, Way

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• There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

  Joan Rivers

  Depressing, Attention, Aging

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• The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Ambition, Envious

  John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

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• I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been dominant for thousands of years. A feminism that deliberately neglects boys is immoral in my opinion.

  Kristina Schroder

  School, Boys, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Stripes, Males, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

  Joseph Conrad

  Thinking, Reeds, Force

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.3137, e-artnow

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• What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.

  Fritz Leiber

  Hate, People, Magic

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

  Jack London

  Nice, Past, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.

  Lee Goldberg

  Eye, Animal, Rivers

  Lee Goldberg (2009). “Mr. Monk in Trouble”, p.70, Penguin

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• The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, Blow, Wind

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• The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Jesus, Disappointment, Years

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• Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Perfect, Photographer, Standards

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• When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  People, Bread, Bananas

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• I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.

  David Gilmour

  School, Support, Want

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

  Jean Liedloff

  Kids, Born

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• Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

  David Gilmour

  School, Kids

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Shooting, Miami, Opinion

  Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

  Rob Thomas

  Tomatoes, Rotten Tomatoes

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• Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

  Ralph Steadman

  Jetty, Privilege, Stink

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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