#decay

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. ↗

— Horace

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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it. ↗

— Francesca Annis

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It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

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Progress, this great heresy of decay. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#great #heresy #progress

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays. ↗

— James Cronin

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Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ↗

— Harold Wilson

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