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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental. -- Jane Jacobs
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. -- Nikki Giovanni
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. -- Jeff Vandermeer
Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed. -- Bethany McLean
Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun. -- Graydon Carter
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe. -- William Henry Hudson
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. -- Ernst Fischer
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone. -- Suki Waterhouse
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country. -- Rush Limbaugh
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place. -- Terry Zwigoff
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. -- William S. Burroughs
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years. -- Alison Moyet
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. -- Isaac Asimov
Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. -- Alan Arkin
Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies. -- Suzan Shown Harjo
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. -- T. S. Eliot
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. -- Ronald Reagan
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. -- Charlotte Bronte
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? -- Faraaz Kazi
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. -- Mark Twain
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. -- Vance Havner
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. -- Chuck Palahniuk
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips"¦her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
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
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented. -- John Owen
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try. -- Yiyun Li
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it. -- George A. Sheehan
It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region. -- Wadah Khanfar
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times. -- William Faulkner
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter. -- Laura Mullen
I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am. -- Gerald Lawson Sittser
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
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense. -- Thomas Hobbes

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