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• To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Civilization, Political

  George Orwell (2009). “Critical Essays”

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• As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Positive, Learning

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• Mutability is written upon all things.

  Antoine Rivarol

  All Things, Mutability, Written

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• [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Apathy

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

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• Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

  Anne Rice

  Soul, Growth, Suffering

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Delay, Revival

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.85, Bethany House

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• Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Truth, Numbers, Gold

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• All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Smell, Bird

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Expectations, Progress

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• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Kings, Real, Thinking

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• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Science, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Wealth, Capitalism

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

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• Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.

  Frederic Joliot-Curie

  Science, Light, Preparation

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• When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Use, Mettle

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• I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called decay, putrefaction, rotting, fermentation and moldering. This cause is the ability possessed by a body engaged in decomposition or combination, i.e. in chemical action, to give rise in a body in contact with it the same ability to undergo the same change which it experiences itself.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Giving, Attention

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• Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

  Ovid

  Yield, Age, Steps

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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

  Song, Heart, Land

  The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 36

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• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Want, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1866). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.410

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• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Hope, Giving, Age

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• I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Dream, Nature

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• Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

  Egon Schiele

  Beautiful, Joy, Quality

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• As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

  Sallust

  Change, Fall, Blessing

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• Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.244

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• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  Doris Day

  Wise, Time, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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