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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. -- Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. -- Antoine Lavoisier
I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. -- Brigitte Bardot
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation. -- Eduard Buchner
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... -- Stephen King
In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change. -- Swami Vivekananda
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated. -- Joel Salatin
White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition. -- Dieter Appelt
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things. -- Empedocles
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury ... -- Otto von Bismarck
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. -- Charles Dickens
What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness. -- Theodor Adorno
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Capitalism Survive?"?I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition. -- Claes Oldenburg

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