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• Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Focus, Expansion

  In-Laws and Outlaws (1962)

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• Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

  Garrett Hardin

  Morality, Certainty, Asks

  "Naked Emperors : Essays of a Taboo-Stalker". Book by Garrett Hardin, 1982.

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• And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Names, Despair

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Dream, Nature

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• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  Doris Day

  Wise, Time, Age

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

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• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Hope, Giving, Age

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• The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

  William Godwin

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  William Godwin, Luke White (bookseller.) (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.375

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• I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

  Harold Brodkey

  Sleep, Odds, Might

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• On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

  Hu Shih

  Historical Knowledge, Self, Achievement

  Hu Shih (2013). “English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society”, p.99, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Wealth, Prosperity

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• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  Jack Valenti

  Movie, Moral, Crime

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• But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

  Lee Greenwood

  Believe, America, Our Society

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• We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Order, Faces, Halt

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• Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Communication, Support, Publicity

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Spiritual, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.126, 谷月社

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• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Together, Separation

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• Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Egypt, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.87, Routledge

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• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

  Gary Oldman

  Reality, Museums, Tvs

  "Playboy Interview: Gary Oldman". Interview with David Hochman, June 25, 2014.

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• Suppose we took a thousand negatives...
  combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.

  Berenice Abbott

  Past, Cities, Curiosity

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• O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
  Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
  When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
  Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Strong, Health

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

  Richard Burton

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Self, People

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• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

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• LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Spiritual, Loss

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press

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• EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Pain, Order, Light

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.125, Shambhala Publications

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