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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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• Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Covering, Pits

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.8

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• I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Teacher, Women

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• It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Beauty, Skins

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

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• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspiration, Successful, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Two, Three

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

  Anne Roiphe

  Children, Doctors, People

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• I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bedroom, Habit, Scene

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.8, Hamilton Books

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• Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Louise Hay on the self-help audience and affirmations". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 26, 2010.

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• The rotten apple spoils his companion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Apples, Standards, Companion

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.58, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Kitchen, Becoming, Culture

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• As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, Hypocrite, Evil

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Dream, Retirement

  George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, p.216, The Floating Press

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• People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beautiful, Writing, Differences

  "How to be Lovely". Book by Melissa Hellstern, 2005.

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• According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

  Heather Brewer

  Dad, Epidemics, Black

  Heather Brewer (2011). “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites: Eighth Grade Bites”, p.102, Penguin UK

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• But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

  Robert Kirkman

  Thinking, Ghouls, Trying

  Robert Kirkman (2006). “The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us”, p.17, Image Comics

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• Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Enemy, Poison

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

  Erma Bombeck

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

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• Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

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• [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Use, Body

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