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• A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

  Rick Riordan

  Past, Hands, Matter

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• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Ocean, Blessing

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• A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Moon, Men, Garden

  "King Popeil and Other Poems (Should, Should Not)". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1962.

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• I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

  Ernest Cline

  Daughter, Hypocrite, Thinking

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Reality, People, Giving

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• Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

  Antonin Artaud

  Soul, World, Body

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

  Nikki Sixx

  Creative, Soul, Darkness

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Equality, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 246

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• I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

  Mervyn Peake

  Home, Boys, Smell

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.67, The Overlook Press

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Art, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Arteries, Leafs, Planets

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• Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.

  Joy Davidman

  Cities, House, Drug

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• It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

  Banksy

  New Orleans, Two, Car

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.

  Kshama Sawant

  Children, Newark, Infrastructure

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.

  Zicheng Hong

  Summer, Dirty, Autumn

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• Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Facts, Loved Ones

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.168, Penguin

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• If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.

  Robert Cecil Martin

  Rain, Learning, Simplicity

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• There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

  Benjamin Creme

  America, People, Dying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• How do you view God in a desert? There's two types of birds. There's vultures, and there's hummingbirds. One lives off dead carcasses, rotting meat. The other lives off the beautiful, sweet, nectar in a particular flower, on a particular desert plant, in the same desert. They both find what they're looking for. Do you know - take it all the way back into the Old Testament - and the Muslim and you, we actually serve the same God. Allah, to a Muslim; to us, Abba Father, God.

  Brian Houston

  Beautiful, Sweet, Father

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• No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.

  Wesley Pruden

  Educational, Years, Black

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• All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

  Hopsin

  Weed, Cells, Feelings

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• I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

  Tina Fey

  Sexy, Thinking, Glasses

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• And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

  John Malkovich

  Wings, Over You, Radio

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• The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

  George Orwell

  Girl, Art, Law

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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