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• I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

  Jenny Holzer

  Abstract, Painter, Wanted

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• The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.

  Richard Watson

  Christian, Cutting, Body

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• Man is rotten with perfection.

  Kenneth Burke

  Men, Perfection

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• I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

  Louis Zamperini

  Kids, Excitement, Get Away

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• You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Men, Orchids

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• If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

  Elizabeth I

  Integrity, Work, Done

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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

  Bill Murray

  Cake, Play, Guy

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• ...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriting whatsoever against us. It's simply cheating to say you believe that and then renege on it by postulating some list of extra-rotten crimes for which Christ has to send you to hell. He, the universal Redeemer, is the only judge; as far as he's concerned, the only mandatory sentence is to life and life abundant.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Cheating, Believe, Judging

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• I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Nice, Believe

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

  Peter Cook

  Luxury, Done, Poverty

  Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.46, Random House

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• The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Tree, Storm, Injustice

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• Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Annoyed, Castles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled and creased. Then, for the first time that Neverfell could remember, he changed to a Face she had never seen before, a frown more ferocious and alarming than either of the others. ‘Who the shambles told you that?’ he barked. ‘Spoilt? I’ll spoil them.’ He took hold of her chin and examined her. ‘A bit sadder, maybe. A bit wiser. But nothing rotten. You’re just growing yourself a rind at last. Still a good cheese.

  Frances Hardinge

  Answers, Growing, Lasts

  Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.

  George Saunders

  Guy, Way, Normal

  George Saunders (2013). “Home: Family Snapshots”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Hate, Thinking, Play

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

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• I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.

  Ian Fleming

  Sorry, Team, Writing

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 20: The Nature Of Evil, 1953.

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• While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.

  Derek Landy

  Boredom, May, Reason

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• All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Educational, School

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

  Charles Saatchi

  Worry, Enough, Spoiled

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.

  John Knox

  Men, Long Ago, Evil

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• I would not knock old fellows in the dust
  But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
  His weapons were the old heart in his bust
  And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Heart, Dust, Teeth

  John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”

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• When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

  John Howard Griffin

  Justice, People, Minorities

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• It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Routine, Gone

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Boys, Past, Men

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