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• Let's come together and form our own party, and give the other parties hell - and then vette who we want, and take down these crooked rotten politicians that are in Congress, in the White House, and in the Supreme Court.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Party, White, Giving

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I've never done Something Rotten either.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Done

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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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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• We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between fresh food and rotten food where most of human culture's most prized delicacies and culinary achievements exist.

  Sandor Katz

  Creative Space, Achievement, Culture

  "'Fermentation': When Food Goes Bad But Stays Good". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 13, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

  Joseph Goebbels

  People, Spit, Made

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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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• Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  War, Character, Fate

  "The Good Word & Other Words" by Wilfrid Sheed, Penguin, (pp. 107-108), 1980.

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• It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

  Edmund Burke

  Army, Attachment, Government

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

  Dorothy Day

  People, Communist, Standing

  Dorothy Day (2012). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, p.203, Image

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• And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

  Iggy Pop

  Fashion, Rocks, Style

  "When you hear what Iggy Pop told CBC in 1977, it's no wonder he's still rocking today" by Leah Collins, www.cbc.ca. March 11, 2016.

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• The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

  George Eliot

  Eye, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.272, Penguin

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• Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

  Richard Wilbur

  Passion, Thinking, Shoes

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.

  John Constable

  Sheep, Escaping, Water

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• WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

  William Cobbett

  Nasty

  1826 On Westbury, Wiltshire. Rural Rides (published 1830), entry for 3 Sep.

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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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• 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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• As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.

  Greil Marcus

  Powerful, Writing, Earthquakes

  "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century". Book by Greil Marcus, 1989.

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